Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said. As to the vulnerability of Messerschmitt planes, he said: "I have heard some rumors like the ones you say, but I have other information...
...Empire. In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens. Publishers adopted slogans like "Always carry your gas mask; always carry a book." The London Library resolved to stay open. Publisher Geoffrey Faber publicly suggested that writing a book was "the most valuable piece of national service which an author can render...
...HANDS ON THE CLOCK-Geoffrey Homes-Morrow ($2). Milk-drinking Humphrey Campbell, called in to find the missing son of a Reno millionaire, solves three murders, puts the finger on a gang of bank robbers. Fast, hardboiled, sparky dialogue...
...Schertzinger Mikado, adapted by Conductor Geoffrey Toye, contains no word that Gilbert, no note that Sullivan, did not write. A few omissions include the duet between Katisha and Ko-Ko, There is beauty in the bellow of the blast and Ko-Ko's song I've got a little list. Sets are far handsomer than any ever seen on the Savoyard stage. Sound recording is approximately perfect. On close inspection, cinemaddicts will note that the Mikado's story conforms strictly to Boy-Meets-Girl pattern; and that Gilbert & Sullivan have not yet been topped...
Predecessors who have made similar shifts are Francis Parkman '19, head of St. Marks, Mitchell Gratwick '22, who was for a time head of the Nichols School in Buffalo, New York, and Geoffrey W. Lewis '32, who is in his first year as headmaster of Brown and Nichols. Many others of the University Hall staff have taught, or are now teaching, at preparatory schools...