Word: gall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astor", a full-blooded Belgian shepherd, died last week. An autopsy proved he had succumbed to gall stones and a tumor. His only falling was that in his old age he became "unhousebroken...
Just as the toiling masses have thus far invariably been betrayed by labor leaders sooner or later, so the peaceful majority of mankind have never yet found political leaders who did not ultimately conduct them into war, however reluctantly. Today Mr. Hull burns with righteous indignation at the gall and wormwood of the rearmament cup which all States are now brewing. So burned President Woodrow Wilson, and so to burn is in the best...
...Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami, Fla. were onetime Democratic Presidential Nominee James Middleton Cox, Massachusetts' Democratic Governor James Michael Curley, Mississippi's Democratic Senator...
...that none other could preserve the impeccable dignity that characerizes him throughout the picture, and gives rise to the hilarious contrast. Alice Brady is perfect as the index of what Carole's madness comes to when it matures, and therefore makes us feel sorry for Godfrey. And nosegays to Gall Patrick, the sour note in the family, and Eugene Pallette, the father of the raving crew...
...proud of their London Lord Mayor, Vancouverites reluctantly granted Toronto's request for a loan of him next month. But when Seattle in the U. S. asked for the London Lord Mayor, the Vancouver Sim shrieked: "No, no, a thousand times no! The nerve of them! The colossal gall! The effrontery of it. Seattle actually wants Vancouver to send the Lord Mayor of London down there ... so they can have a look at him without coming up to Vancouver...