Word: gallingly
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...cracker jack psychiatrist (Richard Conte), who never suspects that she is a kleptomaniac who can't sleep. Fearful of losing his high opinion, she goes for help to an unctuous hypnotist (José Ferrer). One night, while Svengali Ferrer is off setting up an alibi by having his gall bladder out, she wakes out of a trance to find herself a first-class murder suspect...
...John Maragon, the wily Washington five-percenter, an ex-Kansas City bootblack who traded on gall and his friendship with Presidential Aide Harry Vaughan, was indicted for perjury by a Washington grand jury on charges of lying to a Senate subcommittee last July when he said he had never done business with the government for commissions...
...notable surgery he has performed: a 2½-hour diaphragmatic hernia operation on a 76-year-old patient, a 1½-hour rectal cancer removal on an 82-year-old woman. He has also nailed a hip fracture for a 97-year-old accident victim, done intestinal resections, gall bladder, bowel cancer and ovarian cyst operations...
...period air. Yet on a watered-down Broadway, a play that is all scorch and bite is worth reviving. Unhappily, last week's revival was more in the nature of a coffin nail. It lacked skill, perception and tension: at its best it could only serve up gall and wormwood as a kind of sizzling platter. As the wife, Mady Christians did, at any rate, sizzle now & then. As the husband, Raymond Massey merely spouted, as if announcing all the terrible things that did not seem to be happening...
Certain alumni have had the colossal gall to demand the resignation of Arthur Valpey only one year after he had beaten Yale and the Boston sportswriters had labeled him the best coach in New England since Frank Leahy...