Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), a sort of Angel Gabriel, the fighter sets out to choose his new body from a list of worldlings who are about to die. During the search he falls in love with a girl (Evelyn Keyes) whose father has been wronged by a young, polo-playing millionaire. This persuades him to take the body of the millionaire, who has just been drowned in a bathtub by his wife (Rita Johnson) and his secretary (John Emery...
...cavalry and Free French marines, all spit & polish. Inside, in the reception room, besides the conquering Allied generals waited 20-odd foreign consuls; native political leaders; sheiks in wimples; religious dignitaries from the country's many Moslem and Christian sects. They waited in vain for Admiral Pierre Victor Gabriel Gouton (acting for General Henri Fernand Dentz, Vichy's High Commissioner) to come out and say goodby...
Strong indication that the game would end shortly was seen in the arrival at Ankara last week of the Vichy Cabinet's Undersecretary Jacques Gabriel Benoist-Méchin, reportedly to arrange an evacuation of 20,000 Vichy troops over the Turkish-Syrian border...
...medicine (as represented by the American Laryngological Association) last week caught up with grandma. After years of trying to change the subject, the scientists finally broke down and admitted that colds are caused by a draft. Their language, however, was somewhat different from grandma's. Said Dr. Irwin Gabriel Spiesman of Maywood, Ill., making a clean breast of it to 99 other experts in Atlantic City: "Rapid cooling of most cutaneous surfaces produces a reflex vasoconstriction [tightening of blood vessels] and ischemia [lack of blood] leading to lowered mucous membrane temperature of the upper respiratory tract...
...Phinizy 127 *John Bunker 126 *Charles S. Bridge 121 John C. Robbins, Jr. 118 John A. Holabird, Jr. 111 Keith R. Symon 110 Harry Newman, Jr. 110 James E. Meredith 107 John K. Eberie 100 William B. Parsons, Jr. 98 Harrison T. Blaine 96 Nelson J. Darling 81 Gabriel Jackson 86 Thomas Gardiner 77 Edward Ames 75 M. Greely Summers, Jr. 73 George A. Kuhn, Jr. 71 John Lowell 70 William Wesselhoeft 67 David P. Bennett 49 Peter Dammann 43 William T. Munson 41 Eugene J. Reilly 37 E. Bernard Fleischaker 35 Nathaniel S. Lehrman 25 Sophomores *Thomas Matters...