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...earlier and later examples of the prose of Jonathan Swift-a prose that for polished, deadly decorum and energy in satire no writer has ever equaled. Van Doren's introduction also supplies the chief facts about the battles -literary and political-in which Swift fought with all his gall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gulliver in Context | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Radcliffe pianist Mary DeQuedville Briggs '18 will blaze a 'Cliffe trail in the local music field when she gives her first recital in Paine Gall next Wednesday evening under the auspices of the University Music Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs Gives Concert At Paine Hall April 14 | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

...Louie [Armstrong] might exclaim, I "jumped salty" when I read that one. Mr. Stan Kenton has more gall than the Hollywood hams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

With the air of an unwilling valetudinarian, Michigan's handsome, boot-jawed Governor Kim Sigler got up to speak before the Economics Club of Detroit. Everybody in the ballroom of the Book-Cadillac Hotel knew that he would be operated on the next day for an ailing gall bladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Crummy & Cloistered | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

When he was sent to prison for mail fraud last June, Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley told the judge that he had at least nine serious ailments (gall bladder disease, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, etc.). "You are sentencing me," he said brokenly, "to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Hail to the Chief | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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