Word: galle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Kaname Wakasugi, 60, Japan's Commissioner General for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair; of a gall-bladder ailment; somewhere in Japan...
Died. Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, 81, famed surgeon, onetime president of the American Medical Association (1917-18); in Lake Forest, Ill. Dr. Bevan, University of Chicago surgical lecturer since 1901, originated the "hockey-stick" incision for gall-bladder operations, was one of the largest stockholders among Diamond Match Corp. directors (his wife was sole heir to Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber...
...displeased over an article O'Donnell wrote-facetiously sniping at U.S. censorship-that he informally awarded him a German Iron Cross. *Sample rumor: many pregnant WAACs have been shipped home from North Africa. Fact: three of 250 have been sent home, for 1) unsuitable temperament, 2) gall-bladder ailment, 3) legitimate childbirth...
...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...