Word: gabrielic
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...stands for the duration; within the fortnight he will be gobbled up by the Army. But fans, though tearstained, were fickle. Already they had picked a new favorite: the six-foot-one, wavy-haired son of a circus bandleader and circus bareback rider, Trumpeter Harry James. Already the "modern Gabriel" and his band had pied-piped away the followers of many hotter orchestras. When he blew his sweet, shrill horn, his fans were sent out of this world; and this was fast sending James into the land of plenty...
When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment of four unusual volunteers. Their names were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais. The guards were even more puzzled...
...Beerbohm. His Rossetti and His Circle gently caricatured the Brotherhood's esthetic antics, helped keep their memories green. Sir Max, one of the keenest wits and sveltest exquisites of the 1890s, came into the late Victorian world when Oscar Wilde was just a lily-loving boy and Dante Gabriel Rossetti a doddering gaffer. Now something of a gaffer himself, Sir Max celebrated his 70th birthday last fortnight with London's Maximilian Society, a club formed and named in his honor...
...uniform of the Continental Army. It was January 1776. A drum beat before the door; a bugle call rang through the church; and before the end of service 300 members of the congregation had enlisted, with their pastor as Colonel. To the close of the Revolution, Pastor John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg kept the field, rising to be a major general...
...members of the Faculty in tutorial, less emphasis on concentration, required courses on Great Authors and American Civilization, and more time spent by each professor in relating his courses to the rest of his field, were the salient points of a detailed discussion of tutorial and concentration, written by Gabriel Jackson '42 and Adelbert Ames '43 for the Student Council Committee on Education, and accepted by the Council at its meeting last night...