Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clinton W. Gilbert, more eminent as a political correspondent than as a mythologist, nevertheless produced a learned treatise on the taboos and folk ways of America, especially as regards its supreme ruler...
...Washington correspondents whose specialty is pen-portraiture Clinton W. Gilbert, recently wrote of Mr. Denby: "His fate is not important, for . . . nobody will believe that he intentionally did anything wrong, and nobody will believe that he is an adequate Cabinet officer." Mr. Gilbert called him "the old grad type ... a guard on the University of Michigan football team when he was in college ... an honest, well-intentioned, good-natured, slow-witted man who has never grown up. . . . Mr. Denby has, I suspect, an almost irresistible impulse to give the college yell...
Central New York is located in the heart of the chilly belt, and inclement weather conditions at Clinton have caused the cancelation of numerous engagements on the Hamilton schedule...
...Clinton W. Gilbert, author of The Mirrors of Washington and correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, delivered himself of an egregious metaphor, highly complimentary to C. Coolidge...
...Strunsky had departed to The New York Times. In their place was the form and, in good part, the editorial substance of the Ledger. The Bowling Green, on which Christopher Morley played so many jovial games of literary nine pins, had been subdivided into small lots, on which Clinton W. Gilbert, author of The Mirrors of Washington ana correspondent of the Ledger, paragraphed with brutal frankness about Washington politics. Last but not least, the face value of the issue was changed from...