Word: bilious
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Dean Watson completely ignored these suggestions. On January 31, 1950, without first informing the council, the Faculty Committee on Student Activities issued a bilious green eight-page booklet that included all the rules to which the council had objected. The new council, installed at the end of the first term, promptly backed down on the suggestions of its predecessor...
WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL is fond of his collection of goldfish. When he approaches their pools in the lovely grounds of his country house at Chartwell Manor in Kent, the goldfish dart eagerly toward him. Churchill, wearing his familiar siren suit, an overcoat of a peculiarly bilious pea green draped over his shoulders, was feeding them one afternoon this week. One hand held the inevitable black cigar, and the other dipped into the tin of fish food proffered by his bodyguard...
...reigning matriarch, Mrs. Halstead, dies, and with her goes the grand style of life. She had been, as one of the Enclosure stalwarts put it, "the only one around here worth the powder to blow her to hell." Those who survive are a sad lot: her son Christopher, a bilious minister devoted to the comforts of the flesh; her grandson Christopher Jr., a well-read neurotic who fritters himself away in hypochondria; her neighbor Moylan Stacy, an undertaker new to the Enclosure and representing the crudity of the new rich; a dilettante who sponsors opera stars for the sake...
Grumpy & Gloomy. The Federal Trade Commission took a bilious view of these promotional high jinks. Carter Products Inc. produced its own medical experts to prove that the pills actually did stimulate the liver. But the FTC got evidence to the contrary. After eight years, during which it collected 10,000 pages of research and a medical monograph on the liver, the FTC struck. Its ruling last week not only forbade Carter Products to use the word "liver" in the name of its pills, but told Carter's to stop claiming that its pills are specific remedies for conditions...
...sagged lately, and that they are not likely to be improved by turgid Perón speeches proclaiming that not only Communism but capitalism must go. The general might also be told that the U.S. public and press do not cotton to the gagging of La Prensa or the bilious, Kremlin-style attacks on U.S. business by Evita Perón's newspaper, Democracia...