Word: galle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still Kicking. Three days later, returning East aboard a Union Pacific streamliner, the ex-President was stricken with a gall bladder attack. He had to wait five painful hours until a doctor could meet the train at Elko, Nev., give him shots of morphine, sulfa and penicillin. While ambulances and doctors stayed alerted all along the railroad to Chicago, Hoover, after a few hours' sleep, recovered fast enough to resume his gin rummy with his secretary. To a reporter who called on him, he said crisply: "I guess you just wanted to see if I was kicking...
Lanky Eddie Gall, traffic cop at Dearborn and Madison, rubbed his big bass drum with glass wax. Ed Roubik, warehouse foreman, licked the mouthpiece of his ebony musette pipe and squealed a few notes. Hefty Morton H. Petrie, salesman for a candy company, strapped on his whip drum and knocked off a couple of tiddybums, tiddybums. Shrieking pipes and throbbing drums in the hands of 60 middle-aged musicians swung informally into The Hootchy-Kootchy, Little Egypt's tune at the 1893 World's Fair...
...Divan. This week Lloyd, convalescing from a serious gall-bladder operation, stood at another satisfying apex of his life. He had given himself unstintingly to Shrine activities. He had been Al Malaikah Temple's Potentate. For the past seven years he had worked among the Shrine's crippled children's hospitals, had been a director and trustee of that program, which is a substantial and sober part of Shrine activities. It maintains 16 hospitals, annually raises millions of dollars through its circuses, East-West football game, annual dues and local contributions...
Breeding Place. Although they no longer suffered from typhoid themselves, they were human breeding grounds for typhoid germs, could pass the disease on to others.* The only treatment then known was the removal of the gall bladder (where typhoid germs often breed), an expensive and disagreeable operation that did no good if other organs such as the intestines had also become breeding places...
Last week, the Hungarian Communists had the remarkable gall to invite the Vatican to negotiate an agreement on the status of the Hungarian church, "regardless of the personal case of Mindszenty." The Vatican rejected the overtures as a "puerile maneuver." Earlier, the Holy See had declared: "Whereas it has been dared to lay hands sacrilegiously on a very eminent cardinal . . . all those who have performed the aforesaid crime have incurred excommunication . . . and have been declared infamous...