Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he joined the Society of Timid Souls, a three-year-old, self-help group, which meets in the Manhattan apartment of Bernard Gabriel, a nontimid concert pianist. Once a week for twelve merciless minutes, Lawson sang before an audience of 30 other "timid souls," who stared glassily, milled about, rang bells, booed. When he bowed for applause, they shouted that he was a ham. After a month of sweating it out, Lawson was ready to resume his career...
Said Perkins Director Dr. Gabriel Farrell: "Our biggest problem will be to get him down to earth in music. . . . He doesn't know how to read braille and he will have to start from the beginning...
...Householder had cried: "Never in our country's history has there been such a profanation. . . . We trust that the General ... will hereafter remember his moral obligation to the youth of America." After the General spoke of the next war before a Sunday School class in San Gabriel, Calif., Stars & Stripes howled: "Please, General . . . just sort of hold your tongue at least until after that San Francisco conference." The General finally grumbled to a Manhattan reporter: "You can't stop fires by abolishing the fire department [but] now look, lady, be a nice girl...
...Gabriel, Calif., before a group of Sunday-school children, General George S. Patton said: "In my opinion there will be another war because there have always been wars. . . . You are the soldiers, sailors and nurses of the next war if we don't stop wars...
Epilogue: slick, fashionable Portraitist Jean-Gabriel Domergue, who perpetrated the hoax, asked the public to guess, by ballot, which and what the jokers were. Only one voter found the Cassatt, no one spotted the Whistler...