Word: gallingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laird Waller, the new conductor, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin who has been organist, accompanist, vocal teacher, guest conductor in Paris, Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Rochester, Minneapolis, Cincinnati. With steady, vigorous beat he last week directed his Milwaukee debut. Featured were Tenor Edward Johnson, Soprano Yvonne Gall and Baritone William Phillips in excerpts from Faust. The rest was straight fare?Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony; also there was George Gershwin's American in Paris whose absurdities caused the usual giggles. Suggested Critic Richand S. Davis of the Milwaukee Journal...
...considered mollycoddle sentiments respecting Egypt. To a British fighting man Egypt is the last country on earth which the Empire can afford to mollycoddle. Egypt with her Suez Canal is the road to India, and British soldiers have been guarding that road for decades, right or wrong. It was gall and wormwood, it was bitter hemlock, last week, for British officers to stomach what was shouted to cheering, pacifistic socialists by War Minister Tom Shaw. "A few more years!" came the bullfrog bellow, "A few more years of Tory [Conservative] misrule and Great Britain would lose India just as surely...
...inclined, examined garages as well as houses, found what he wanted in Highland Park. Friends heard he was going to build himself an airplane. Marouf will be repeated at Ravinia for Tenor Chamlee who recently scored a successful Paris debut in that opera. Another Highland Parker is Mme. Yvonne Gall, fresh from Paris. She will be seen and heard in Paul Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bhie...
...Garlic, gall nuts and frosted glass...
...stomach's ability to secrete gastric juices. If a patient fails to secrete the juices on both meat and bread diets, that is serious. Such failure is a sign of cancer of the stomach, of pernicious anemia, of delayed healing in lobar pneumonia and inflammation of the gall bladder...