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...Versailles 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...
Each day's news came like a dose of gall & wormwood, each morning's headlines made the morning coffee bitter. The U.S. looked at the management of the war, and found...
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...
...Nahas Pasha thus to return was gall to Farouk. But there is a proverb in the Near East which says: "A dog does not bite another dog from the same neighborhood." Farouk has shouted "Egypt for the Egyptians" as loudly as any of Nahas Pasha's fellahin. And while the fellahin have been influenced by Axis propaganda describing pro-British Egyptians as "Pasha Pigface" and "Pasha Fathead," Farouk has heeded Italian advisers and Axis promises of a "new order" of freedom...