Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likely stripling of 14, wears a velvet tunic between the hem of which and a pair of his mother's black stockings there yawns "a sad hiatus" when he sits. Friends of the family swell the audience, including three painters-Ford Madox Brown, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A lissom youth with auburn hair and a weak but beautiful countenance stretches on the rug, slightly disconcerting the actors by chanting the lines with them in a melodious undertone. He is called Algernon Swinburne...
Later, Pope Pius, a Canadian pilgrimate and 60,000 of the faithful knelt in veneration and beatified the tortured priests whose sufferings were blazoned on the banners. The beatified: John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant, Anthony Daniel, Charles Gamier, Noel Charbanel, Jean de la Lande, René Goupil and Isaac Jogues...
...deep ravine of Wall Street, it is an old story of how Claude H. Foster founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co. on the modest sum of $1,500. Wall Street was equally cognizant that that Company earned $1,086,195 last year, representing an interest of 72,413% on the original investment; that Mr. Foster was the sole owner of this thriving concern, which manufactured three-quarters of the world's automobile snubbers and shock-absorbing devices. But even Wall Street, which hears many strange things without a metaphorical flicker of its eyes, opened them wide in astonishment last week...
Chief of the gifts announced at this time is one of the great rarities of Milton bibliography, a copy of the first edition of Comus," dated 1637. The copy was brought to this country after the sale of the Bridgewater collection by the well-known, New York bookseller, Gabriel Wells. This edition, which was published by Henry Lawes, musician and friend of the poet, appeared anonymously...
Through the interest and cooperation of Gabriel Wells, the firm of Edgar 11. Wells and Co, secured it for the University library. It was presented by an anonymous benefactor, a graduate of the University, in memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, who died in the World...