Word: gabrielic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fair-faced, jolly General Alphonse Pierre Juin, 55, became Commander of Vichy's Moroccan forces. Just a month ago the Nazis saw fit to release General Juin from a German prison camp. Fellow officers have often noted his totalitarian sympathies. Suave, dark General Jean Josèphe Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny became commander of Vichy's Tunisian troops. His name has often been linked with the pre-war Croix de Feu (fascists) and Cagoulards (monarchist terrorists). To command the French Mediterranean Fleet, Vichy appointed young Admiral Gabriel Adrien Josèphe Paul Auphan, British-hating favorite...
With Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), a sort of Angel Gabriel, the fighter sets out to choose his new body from a list of worldlings who are about to die. During the search he falls in love with a girl (Evelyn Keyes) whose father has been wronged by a young, polo-playing millionaire. This persuades him to take the body of the millionaire, who has just been drowned in a bathtub by his wife (Rita Johnson) and his secretary (John Emery...
...cavalry and Free French marines, all spit & polish. Inside, in the reception room, besides the conquering Allied generals waited 20-odd foreign consuls; native political leaders; sheiks in wimples; religious dignitaries from the country's many Moslem and Christian sects. They waited in vain for Admiral Pierre Victor Gabriel Gouton (acting for General Henri Fernand Dentz, Vichy's High Commissioner) to come out and say goodby...
Strong indication that the game would end shortly was seen in the arrival at Ankara last week of the Vichy Cabinet's Undersecretary Jacques Gabriel Benoist-Méchin, reportedly to arrange an evacuation of 20,000 Vichy troops over the Turkish-Syrian border...
...medicine (as represented by the American Laryngological Association) last week caught up with grandma. After years of trying to change the subject, the scientists finally broke down and admitted that colds are caused by a draft. Their language, however, was somewhat different from grandma's. Said Dr. Irwin Gabriel Spiesman of Maywood, Ill., making a clean breast of it to 99 other experts in Atlantic City: "Rapid cooling of most cutaneous surfaces produces a reflex vasoconstriction [tightening of blood vessels] and ischemia [lack of blood] leading to lowered mucous membrane temperature of the upper respiratory tract...