Word: galled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gall...
...Blaustein's gall deserves recognition, and we favor a mimeographed supplement to contain his neighborhood news...
...tragic, ritual-fed race. The rocks that split them, darkly inevitable, grip into the beds of their courses with roots that were when first men and women searched their souls. Told in fierce words and gentle, dull words and shining, words sweet as wild honey, words bitter as black gall-here is a Book...
Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe?Etchers and Etching. Writing it, gall scored his pen; gloom puckered his mouth. In his foreword, he denounces, derides all others who have written about etching. The curator of prints in the British Museum, he is demolished; "poor old Hamerton" (Hamerton whose works have long been the only authority on etching), he is spurned. He employs many great names, many swaggering pronouns. "Whistler," says Etcher Pennell, "Whistler and I. . . ." "Whistler and me. . . ." Down the list of the world's immortal etchers he runs his pen, here scratching...
...made it necessary for her to give up being herself and learn to cook. As a meticulous housekeeper, if not as a wife, Delia was a success, but the effort cost her great growing pains. Accordingly Page's cup of political and social success had a sediment of gall and not one, but two, generations misunderstood Delia. The writing is faintly ungrammatical and occasionally droning, but not unperceptive or unsympathetic. Mrs. Sachs is a neo-Tarkingtonian...