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...Charles Pelissier and Armand Blanch-onnet, French entrants: the annual Paris six-day bicycle race, defeating the American team of Harry Horan and Anthony Beckman, after Beckman had retired from the race on account of stomach ache...
Meat: Seeing that the English rulers of India were great, strapping John Bulls, guessing that this physique was due to meat, Mr. Gandhi resolved to violate the most sacred religious tenet of Hinduism: he ate a steak. His stomach, his mind and his soul quickly experienced a most excruciating triple torture. Thereafter the poor great man?the much-to-be-sympathized-with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?resolved that even to free Mother India, dearer to him than life, he could not pollute himself with meat...
...Bill led at it, then whacking his right across; he caught Bill in the air coming off the ropes as a trapshooter catches a clay pigeon; he reached down, took hold of the rope, pulled this way and that for quick turns; he pressed both gloves against his own stomach like a waiter making a bow, then flashed them up in furious rataplans to Black Bill's stomach and head. He won the championship. The crowd that cheered the decision went out comparing him to famed tiny fighters of the past-Midget Smith, Abe Attell, little Jack Sharkey-saying...
Jamaica ginger, which almost all of the stricken confessed drinking, has been mentioned as a cause. Jamaica ginger is an infusion of the peeled and ground roots of he ginger plant in alcohol. In medicine it s used internally to remove gas on the stomach. Many women use the candied root or the extract to soothe their periodic griping. Because Jamaica ginger gives a lot feeling to the stomach and because it contains alcohol it is like lemon extract, favorite tipple of inland drinkers unable to buy normal imported alcoholic beverages. They call Jamaica ginger "jake...
...Ford Motor Co. in 1915 for 30 million. Few are the Senators who slap him on the back or call him "Larry." Except when he is taking his autumn, winter or spring vacation, he can generally be found in his front-row aisle seat, his hands crossed on his stomach, a far-away look on his face. He wears grey expensive suits, $10 blended neckties. His hair is white, his waxed mustache grey. He gives the appearance of being exceedingly well cared for by valets, well fed by French chefs...