Word: gabriel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newscasters have been so miscellaneously sponsored as sad-eyed, boot-nosed Gabriel Heatter. Since he went into radio in 1932, he has been backed by everything from a brewery to a personal-loan company. This week he added to his current list, which includes Liberty magazine and R. B. Semler, Inc. (Kreml, "not greasy - makes the hair behave"), For-han's toothpaste, which once encouraged four out of five U. S. citizens to brood about pyorrhea. Now on the air over MBS five times a week with the news, the busy Mr. Heatter also serves as interlocutor...
...around the city room there, Publisher Hearst whooped into a Gubernatorial campaign. One of Hearst's advisers suggested that it might be a good idea to have a boy orator precede the master. The assignment fell to the juvenile Heatter, then 16. All over New York the youthful Gabriel trumpeted the virtues of Candidate Hearst. Frequently he was bespattered with eggs and tomatoes, occasionally bashed on the nose...
...hope that all those who wish the opportunity to discuss such a program not only with their fellow-Harvardians, but also with students from all sections of the United States, will accept this invitation. Gabriel Jackson '42, Robert Wechsler...
...names of the victims leaked out, the impact of the purge rocked Bucharest to its rotting foundations. Murdered along with the police who had carried out the Iron Guard execution two years before were onetime Iron-Guard-purging Premier General George Argeseanu; General Gabriel Marinescu, onetime Bucharest police chief and watchdog over King Carol's redheaded paramour Magda Lupescu; Victor Ismandi, Minister of Justice when Codreanu was sentenced to prison...
...Cockcrow: one swears he knows Him not; Thence is a Church begot.)- was the angel Gabriel in disguise-who crew also in Eden when Eve plucked the forbidden fruit, and will crow again ("in the days of great persecution of the Jews, and of intestine wars") when Satan, soul nauseated by his triumphant corruption of the world, prays God to put an end to mankind. Since Gabriel's first cockcrow, seven Messiahs have done their miraculous best to redeem mankind. But their efforts only went to convince Donne in the 17th Century-and only go to reconvince Olson...