Word: gallinger
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In England, Lincoln was as harshly treated as at home. Punch printed grotesque caricatures of the "boor" by its greatest draughtsmen, John Leech and Sir John Tenniel, later famed for his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland illustrations. The magazine Fun carried a series of bitter drawings by Matthew Somerville...
"I know hundreds of ladies of the aristocracy and upper classes who believe that they have accomplished a super-human feat when they have presented their husbands with one son, as if they had performed a galling duty imposed by law to the exclusive benefit of man.
To Germans it is a bitter, galling fact that Posen, the birthplace of President Paul von Hindenburg, is no longer German but lies in the wedge of Polish territory which was driven through Prussia to the Baltic by the Treaty of Versailles. With his own province thus a knife in...
This whole gripping scholastic drama is a farce. It is absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous. There is no place for it in a true school of humanism. As long as the only method of university instruction was that by courses, as system of marks and grading was a necessary administrative evil. But...
"It becomes hard to guess at what he really aims and hard to believe that he himself knows at what he aims. . . . He shows a vein of intense personal hostility to the Prime Minister, whose quieter but galling gibes?never omitted ?had challenged a retort."