Word: gabrielic
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Germans have always felt that when an automobile horn sings out "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it ought to mean something. Before the War only Kaiser Wilhelm's family cars were permitted to carry the polyphonic sirens that were known in the U. S. as Gabriel Horns.† When the Kaiser went, any little clerk with an automobile could speak with the four woodland notes of a Gabriel Horn. Last week the Nazis grabbed the Gabriel Horn for themselves. It was decreed that hereafter when an automobile toots "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it will mean that there goes...
...Invented by U. S. Inventor Claud H. Foster who named it for Gabriel's trumpet. He later devised an ingenious contraption using a spring in a box to take up an automobile's road bounce. He called it a snubber, called his company Gabriel Manufacturing Co., now Gabriel Co., maker of shock absorbers and other auto accessories. Founder Foster (now retired) long paid Ohio's biggest income tax, in one year...
...Singer. Most tuneful of them are "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule." "Why do I Dream those Dreams." In "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule" the rostrum in the Wonder Bar represents everything from a Negro cabin on the canebrake to a night club in Paradise with Gabriel performing on a saxophone. Like other recent Warner Brothers productions. Wonder Bar contains more than its quota of obscenity...
Wliooo! Wheee! Piercing siren screams roused the Conference and all Montevideo. The siren belongs to El Pueblo, newsorgan of Uruguay's Dictator-President, Dr. Gabriel Terra. When it shrieks there is urgent news. So many Montevidians rushed pell mell to see what was being chalked up on El Pueblo's bulletin board that the police had to be called out. Though it was afternoon El Pueblo, confident that no other Montevideo paper could get the story, announced with the dignity of a Dictator's newsorgan that it would print no extra, that the public would have...
...banquet had been tendered by massive President Dr. Gabriel Terra of Uruguay to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the nine other foreign ministers of American countries at the Conference. To seat the 200 statesman-guests, each jealous of his rank, was the ticklish job of Senor Carlos de Yeregui, mincing-mannered Uruguayan Chef de Protocols. In plenty of time before the banquet Senor Yeregui called his limousine, set out from his office with the 200 precious place cards and the indispensable seating list. Chuckling, Montevideo's merry Communists stopped Senor Yeregui's car, forced his chauffeur...