Word: gall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Thérése Pereyra Blum, wife (second) of France's onetime Premier Leon Blum, who once said of her: "Madame Blum is my best adviser, my best friend, my best beloved, and my finest chauffeur"; after a gall bladder operation; in Paris...
...Germantown home to rest for three hours after the excitement. Connie Mack has been in poor health since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder ailment, his familiar figure, dressed in street clothes, wearing a pre-War high hard collar, brandishing a score card, was absent from the Athletics' dugout. Last week Connie Mack did not eat or drink at his birthday party. He is on a diet of custards, milk and pudding...
...slip in, thus providing a thread to the tale and bringing pretty Danielle Darrieux (this time, in contrast to her star-crossed Marie Vetsera in Mayerling, a lively minx) a climax of illicit motherhood. Manhattan censors ordered an English subtitle indicating that Danielle and her young man (Raymond Gall) have been secretly married all along...
This report followed closely after another from Dr. Link having to do with crown gall, a local infection of apple trees which superficially at least resembles cancer in animals. Crown gall and cancer are both proliferations of unhealthy cells. Botanists have long known that the gall is caused by a bacterium, Phytemonas tumefaciens. Dr. Link succeeded in inducing galls by application of heteroauxin, keeping the bacterium away from the scene of operation...
Year ago this brown-haired wife of the world's most prominent publisher met Dr.Max Thorek, Chicago gall bladder exciser. Dr. Thorek saw in Mrs. Hearst a likely patroness for a new International College of Surgeons which he was to help an old Manhattan friend, Dr. Harold Lyons Hunt, get on its feet in the face of denunciation by the American Medical Association's mouthpiece, Dr. Morris Fishbein...