Word: gaul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peabody Museum: Hemenway fellowship, for the study of American Archaeology and Ethnology, to James H. Gaul, 3G, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Thaw fellowship to Frank C. Hibben, 1G, of Albuquerque, New Mexico...
Most Rev. Pierre Gerlier, well-loved and smooth-spoken bishop of the French diocese which includes the famed shrine of Lourdes, who was raised last summer to be Archbishop of Lyons. This post carries with it the ancient, honorable but now empty designation, Primate of Gaul...
...voice of God was that of George Gaul, onetime featured actor on Broadway (Strange Interlude, Seventh Heaven), at 51 exclusively a radio performer. He thundered properly, showing little evidence of what critics once called the "hookworm" manner of his Southern birth. The performance was the first of a series of "Living Dramas of the Bible" put on by Columbia Broadcasting System.* Conceived by Assistant Director of Broadcasts Douglas Coulter, produced by Max Wylie, the first Living Drama was a thoughtful, serene projection of the familiar troubles of Job. Among its actors were two MARCH OF TIME voices and Stefan...
...short, "There's No Place Like Rome" lived up to its title and had us almost expelled by the management, high points being young hopeful Flavius calling for a vanilla popsicle, Roman gladiators rowing back from conquering Gaul in approved crew fashion, and man-eating lions charmed to rest by a jazz band wearing armor...
...fished to such good purpose in Rome's troubled waters that eventually he caught the great Pompey and the millionaire Crassus in his net, became with them one of the three rulers of the Roman world. Then he went off to make his military reputation in Gaul and Britain. Returning at the head of a victorious army, he gave the signal for civil war when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome. Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar's legions tore his army to pieces at Pharsalia. Caesar, "voted" dictator, was king...