Word: gallingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each day's news came like a dose of gall & wormwood, each morning's headlines made the morning coffee bitter. The U.S. looked at the management of the war, and found...
Dorothy Gish, ill of gall-bladder trouble, dropped out of the Life With Father cast touring the Northwest. Sister Lillian flew west from Manhattan to take over Mother's role...
...Nahas Pasha thus to return was gall to Farouk. But there is a proverb in the Near East which says: "A dog does not bite another dog from the same neighborhood." Farouk has shouted "Egypt for the Egyptians" as loudly as any of Nahas Pasha's fellahin. And while the fellahin have been influenced by Axis propaganda describing pro-British Egyptians as "Pasha Pigface" and "Pasha Fathead," Farouk has heeded Italian advisers and Axis promises of a "new order" of freedom...
Died. Mary Lewis, 42, popular operatic soprano of the '20s; of gall bladder and kidney trouble; in Manhattan. She spent three years with the Ziegfeld Follies, made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1926 as Mimi in La Bohême. The next year she married Basso Michael Bohnen and quit. She divorced Bohnen, in 1931 married the late oil and shipping tycoon Robert L. Hague...
...famous Berlin newscaster, William L. Shirer, has had no successor in the art of wafting a lifted eyebrow on the air. But until Nazi armies got mired in Russia the job of broadcasting from Berlin, though it took gall and patience, could be honorably carried out. After CBS got tough last summer (TIME, July 28), it even seemed that Berlin would relax its clamp, at least on "color broadcasts." Instead, the personal war of nerves between radio correspondents and censors grew bitterer...