Word: gall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drunk of gall...
Wishing only we had the gall...
...limit of gall for members to stand here and oppose the enforcement of a law we are bound to sustain. It is unfumigated gall for members to stand here and assail a patriotic organization like the Anti-Saloon League...
...divided into three parts, gall, more gall, and wormwood. Among the early season distresses of the last type can be named the Histrionic Club's annual December production, "The Banana Comedy." True this is but a premature production staged by prematures. True Cattle Hall lacks the proper acoustics. Yet there can be no excuse for robbing Filbert Soldhis of his gall for the annual wormwood of the Histrionic Society...
...compliment to Mussolini and the Italians." Friction had begun before the ship left Rome. There was a scene when Riiser-Larsen, a big, strong, silent man, was reduced to tears by Nobile's vociferous demand for recognition and authority. "That man Nobile," Riiser-Larsen had moaned, "has more gall and conceit than I thought any civilized person would dare to show. ... I simply can't stand...