Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Gabriel Poulain, French aviator, at Degny, France, when the airplane which he was piloting crashed to the ground. (See page...
...exhibits were selected by Mussolini and d'Annunzio. In the literary section, the works of Dante and d'Annunzio are given prominence. D'Annunzio's son, Gabriellino (Little Gabriel), has selected the best Italian films for exhibit. Troupes of theatrical and lyric artists will give renditions of Italian opera and teach the South Amercans how to sing Giomnezza (Italian slang for "Talk turkey"), Fascista hymn...
Bibles. The ordinary Gutenberg Bible, of which 41 are known to be in existence, has 641 pages. (This was the first issue of the Bible printed with movable type, 1450, 1455.) Gabriel Wells, a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, bookdealer, recently sold piecemeal an imperfect copy of 593 pages. Where whole books or chapters were intact, they were sold as units. The splitting up of the book makes it possible for many museums and libraries to have pages of this famous Bible, where it would be impossible to secure whole copies. Those which have benefited under this scheme are: Toledo Museum...
...Paris, Gabriel Faure's opera Penelope has been revived at the Opera Comique, after ten years. This piece is in the " noble and intelligent Classic mask," conceived as a piece of chamber music, with the delicacy and original vigor that is associated with Bach's chamber music. It has achieved a succes d'estime, and testifies to the growing popularity of the classic manner...
Before 15 officers of the First Army Area in Boston, Lieutenant Harry S. Gabriel of Watkins, New York, who is a special graduate student in the University, was yesterday awarded the Distinguished Service Order by General Hersey for extraordinary heroism in skirmishes around Hill 378 in France. Lieutenant Gabriel enlisted at the outbreak of the war as a private, but he was soon promoted to the rank of Sergeant. Receiving an officer's training at Camps Dix and Lee, he was commissioned and sailed for France in August, 1918, moving directly to the front on his arrival there. After...