Word: gallingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around southern Paraguay it is said that Tupá Mbaé cures gall stones with apeterebi, dysentery with anambai-guazú, internal hemorrhage with guabiyu-miru, hemophilia with caa pari miri, boils with ananga piri, syphilis with the poisonous milk of curupi-cay, many other afflictions with other local flora. Thousands of his patients have, beyond doubt, got well. Many orthodox physicians think that Tupá Mbaé has had something to do with it. The forests of southern Paraguay contain a rich pharmacopaeia which would bear looking into...
These achievements did not keep him from being a gay, and well-known wit. Once three of us, undergraduates still,--of, whom Kittredge was one and I another-were accused of doing something required "a good deal of gall." Whereupon said "Kitty,"-"All Gaul is divided into three parts." I have often been credited with this coruscating retort...
...newsman in the Senate gallery sent these words down to Burt Wheeler. Cried Senator Wheeler: ". . . There is not a drop of blood flowing through my veins except English, and my people came here from England something like 300 years ago. . . . Think of the gall . . . the insolence . . . . A man such as Wedgwood should be run out of the United States...
...interested in knowing me ES the person Mose Simms alluded to last autumn when he boasted "only one paying customer" on his football team. You see, I had the gall to come to St. Mary's without ever having heard of Mose Simms, and reported for football practice out of that little thing known as school spirit...
...plane on a Saturday evening. He wore a gold wrist watch, a gold wrist compass. In the pockets of his superbly tailored flier's uniform he had a photograph of his four-year-old son, two phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel Castle near Glasgow. Dungavel is the seat of 38-year-old Wing Commander Douglas-Hamilton...