Word: bladder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace Conference. It had been announced that on the Fourth of July (1919) he would address the crews of all the convoying ships. The significance of this communication was noted by only a handful of newfangled thinkers - radio men. Most U.S. newspaper editors, buried the news among their gall bladder...
When she resigned as agricultural editor in 1937 to write only when it suited her, Free Press editors relaxed. She had terrorized them for years, berating them for crimes like putting a one-column head on a bull-show story and burying it back among the gall-bladder ads. They relaxed too soon. Cora kept right on berating them until she died...
Dorothy Gish, ill of gall-bladder trouble, dropped out of the Life With Father cast touring the Northwest. Sister Lillian flew west from Manhattan to take over Mother's role...
Died. Mary Lewis, 42, popular operatic soprano of the '20s; of gall bladder and kidney trouble; in Manhattan. She spent three years with the Ziegfeld Follies, made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1926 as Mimi in La Bohême. The next year she married Basso Michael Bohnen and quit. She divorced Bohnen, in 1931 married the late oil and shipping tycoon Robert L. Hague...
...gets off the beam. A slapsticky remake of a 1925 farce (Her Sister from Paris, with Constance Talmadge), it is an absurd vehicle for Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil and the screen's best tragedienne. Its embarrassing effect is not unlike seeing Sarah Bernhardt swatted with a bladder. It is almost as shocking as seeing your mother drunk...