Word: gallingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hope & Fear. Through gall and goad, the ricksha man has clung to his calling. Hong owners exploit him ("They are blackhearted," he complains-in Shanghai, before last week's strike, they upped their daily rentals from 60? to $2.60), moneylenders gouge him, racketeers batten on him. Yet, in 1918 in Shanghai, he took up bamboo sticks and iron bars to destroy the alien trolleys that menaced his means of meager livelihood-which, after all, is better than that of millions of his fellows...
...Marcel Petiot's 63 murders did not impress the atrocity-hardened French. But they were impressed by his agile defense and sheer gall last week in a trial in which his condemnation had seemed certain. Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...
Died. General Plutarco Elias Calles, 68, Mexico's President from 1924 to 1928 and El Jefe (the boss) for many years before & after; after a gall-bladder operation; in Mexico City. The onetime schoolteacher and storekeeper gained prominence in the 1911 revolution against Porfirio Diaz, thereafter dominated Mexican politics until banished in 1936 by Lazaro Cárdenas, his former protege. Calles improved education and labor laws, inveighed loudly against one-man rule yet practiced it, continually flailed the Catholic Church, was labeled "hard but just" by U.S. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow...
...Taylor has the colossal gall to decry democracy, and to compare us to the recreants who planned the mass murder at Dachau. To this I can only say that thousands of us owe our lives to the "brutes" who devised this bomb, and the "monsters" who had the courage to use it. (RDM2/c) R. E. CODY % Fleet Post Office San Francisco...
Hastily absolving McCarthy of all blame for the Yankees' failures, MacPhail refused to accept the resignation. He suggested instead that Joe go home for a rest. The 58-year-old manager, who has suffered from a gall bladder ailment and who could certainly afford to retire if he felt like it (total earnings with the Yankees: some $500,000), shuffled off to Buffalo to think things...