Word: galle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightmares that haunt an able surgeon, none is worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
Died. Paul May, Belgian Ambassador to the U. S. since 1931; after an operation for a gall-bladder ailment; in Washington...
...recent weeks the Parliamentary committee investigating I'affaire Stavisky has glossed over even such startling admissions as one by Inspector Le Gall of the Sûrete (Secret Police) that "I would have had 99 chances out of a 100 to capture Stavisky alive if I had been allowed to." This strengthened public conviction that $30,000,000 Swindler Alexandre Stavisky was no suicide but was shot by the Sûrete because highly placed politicians thought he knew too much. For months the Rightist Paris Press has been hammering insinuations of guilt at dapper Deputy Camille Chautemps...
Died. Count Ilya Tolstoy, 67, second son of the late great Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, lecturer, author (Visions, Reminiscences of My Father); of heart and gall-bladder disorders; in New Haven, Conn. After the 1917 revolution he returned to Russia from a U. S. lecture tour, was driven out again by Bolsheviks. With his wife, a Russian emigree whom he married in 1920 in Newark, he lived in the Connecticut hills, tilled his own soil. In 1926 he helped with the screen adaptation of his father's Resurrection, played in it the part of the cobbler-philosopher...
...York City. Soon he was made assistant to the president of Williams College, whence he was graduated in 1909. He went to teach at Harvard Law in 1917. Last January Mrs. Sayre, who had long served on the executive committee of the Massachusetts Democracy, died after a gall bladder operation (TIME...