Word: bileful
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...proceeded for an hour and a quarter, but his system was still not fully relieved of bile. In a final orgasm of accusation he gave utterance to his long-festering abomination of the press gallery, which has repeatedly declared itself bored by his bombast. "Poor little purse-proud puppets," he sneered, "holding out their hands to get something scurrilous to write about a man who is trying to serve his country." The six gazers quickly reported the matter to their fellows, who, by tradition, leave the gallery when the Senator from Alabama rises...
...years ago, Drs. E. A. Graham, G. H. Gopher and W. H. Cole, all of the Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, began research to make possible visualization of the gallbladder by use of the Xray. They found that certain salts injected into the body are eliminated through the bile, which is stored in the gallbladder. They knew that iodin and bromin salts are opaque to the Roentgen ray. They secured a combination of these salts and obtained X-ray pictures of the abdomen in which the gallbladder, previously invisible because of soft tissue, appeared almost as clearly...
...best gross cards for 18 and 36 holes. But the medal for the famed event?the championship for men over 50, went to Frederick Snare of Garden City who had turned in a score of 156. Piddling old fellows snorted when they heard of this, and spat their bile into the Club's brass spittoons; others shook their heads over their sour milk, declaring that it was a wonder that a man who went to Havana every winter like Mr. Snare could get around a course at all; but the more upstanding of medalists?they who had staunch freckles...
...Libretto. L'Enfant, a favored one, constantly companioned by such birds and beasts as cats, bats, dragonflies and a squirrel, is untransfigured by the gentleness that attends his living, hut ridden with black bile and curious humors. Does he learn his lessons? Far from it; this enfant, is idle and, when his Hainan reproves him for his lassitude, assuredly with justice, ho surrenders himself to rancor, beating the floor with his heels, chasing the cats, the squirrel and committing many acts of violence. Then it is that he hears the old clock sing, with much clucking of the tongue...
...Substance. A vaccine, labelled "BCG," obtained from special culture of the Koch bacilli, weakened subsequently by the grafting of 230 successive cultures on bovine bile. To be injected or administered through the mouth...