Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disguised as deep feelings, jealousy or thought. It also contains little stories grained into the theoretical material: Tucker Ames worried until he could not get ahead because his daughter was in the hospital, his business failing, and his wife in love with another man; Phyllis Foster worried over injustice; Gabriel Gadbury worried over his wife's extravagance; Robert E. Lee refused to worry over what history would say of his surrender; Martin Luther chose to be true to himself when "faced with one of the greatest decisions in history." In it are to be found a catalog of definitions...
Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.) Dramacritic Gilbert Wolf Gabriel M.A. Ex-Senator George Wharton Pepper. . .LL.D...
...Virgin is shown seated on a carved throne within a Gothic structure. Over her head is a canopy of a rich red color, while in her hand is a book which she is reading tranquilly. On her right the Archangel Gabriel is about to enter through an archway which is decorated with a scroll motif much like that which was so common in the Renaissance...
...betrays the insurgents; Melody, the mulatto mistress of the white rascals; Juba, the slave girl who is in love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would have made him, but he is strong enough to make some impression even on the minds of those who "read history not with their eyes...
...insurrection fails because of the negroes' superstitions. Rain and lightning and thunder are responsible for the loss of many of Gabriel's followers, as well as (partly) for the defection of Ben. Against superstition and treachery even the gods contend in vain, and when Gabriel goes down in defeat he goes down with an undeniable grandeur which even Mr. Bontemps can impart to the reader...