Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattrede Tassigny was a fighting hero in two wars against Germany. He was tall, dark, gallant with the ladies. To his soldiers he was the model of military men. He was also a patriot...
With this triumph over the Fascist-minded National (Blanco) Party, acceptance of a new Constitution drafted by President Baldomir seemed a certainty. It would replace the outworn Constitution promulgated eight years ago after a coup d'état by the late President Gabriel Terra, which gave minority parties a disproportionate voice in public affairs...
Things began to perk up. Boddy exposed a scandalous misuse of public funds on the projected San Gabriel Dam. He tore into a malodorous municipal bond issue. The reputation of the News for fair dealing grew until in February 1929 it showed its first profit...
...Most of them are just getting into operation. The branch chiefs are mostly ex-foreign correspondents like Wallace Carroll (London), former head of the U.P.'s London bureau; a couple of ex-drama critics like the New York Herald-Tribune's Richard Watts Jr. (Dublin) and Gilbert Gabriel (Anchorage) of Hearst's defunct New York American; ex-admen like J. Walter Thompson's M. L. Stiver (Canberra...
...stands for the duration; within the fortnight he will be gobbled up by the Army. But fans, though tearstained, were fickle. Already they had picked a new favorite: the six-foot-one, wavy-haired son of a circus bandleader and circus bareback rider, Trumpeter Harry James. Already the "modern Gabriel" and his band had pied-piped away the followers of many hotter orchestras. When he blew his sweet, shrill horn, his fans were sent out of this world; and this was fast sending James into the land of plenty...