Word: bilious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bilious Blast...
Nobody needs to get alarmed about the bilious blasts of those gyrating Governors who sounded off at Tallahassee (TIME, April 5). The two who were most vociferous and vehement about breaking the Solid South were elected Governors of their respective states largely because the good people of Georgia and Louisiana were disgusted with two intolerable buffoons, in the guise of Governor, who were ruining the good names of these great states...
...best known American anti-Fascist painting, the face of Benito Mussolini is a bilious, terrible green. Last week Mussolini probably felt almost as green as Peter Blume had painted him. It was an appropriate week for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to buy (price unannounced) Peter Blume's The Eternal City...
...French Painter Balthus (Balthasar Klossowsky) offered a wicked portrait of his friend French Painter André Derain in his dressing gown one bilious morning-after-the-week-before...
...contemplated all this with a bilious eye was George Messersmith, now U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Messersmith had spent a long time in Germany and had known about Axel Wenner-Gren in the prewar years. Another non-admirer, in Washington, was Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, whom Wenner-Gren had once mysteriously dogged all the way to Italy and Germany. As time went on, the suspicions of the State Department deepened. Suddenly, in January, the Department swung its club and Axel Wenner-Gren found himself on the blacklist of persons with whom the U.S. would have no further dealings. Great...