Word: geste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Visiting Peking in the '20s, a wealthy Manhattan engineer named Guion M. Gest got relief from a painful eye disease, and picked up a hobby. For his ailment, Commander I. V. Gillis, U.S. naval attaché in Peking at the time, recommended an ancient Chinese eye medicine, concocted and sold by a Peking family. The medicine eased the engineer's pain, and he decided forthwith to begin collecting a library of Chinese medical books. In due time, Engineer Gest went back to the U.S., but before he left he commissioned Navyman Gillis to act as his agent...
...Firestone Library, visitors were examining a volume of Buddhist scriptures printed by the monks of a Chinese monastery in 1234, two centuries before Johann Gutenberg closed his press on the first Gutenberg Bible. The rare book was part of Princeton's first public display of the Gest Oriental Library, a fabulous collection of more than 130,000 Chinese books and manuscripts spanning eleven centuries...
...ambassador has contrived such varied aids to modern life as self-winding watches, shock absorbers and mine-detecting devices; but his greatest love is the theater. Leaning back behind his cluttered desk in Manhattan this week, he spoke enthusiastically of his longtime friendship with impresarios Morris Gest and David Belasco...
...nonce, the six ruggedly individualistic canners had got together to fight the ban. They were led by one of the big gest of them, a squat, merry ex-fishmonger named Pete Sellen (creator of the famed "Pete's trout-ticklers"). Back in 1917, Pete Sellen decided that salmon eggs, which were thrown away by fishermen, had their use. After experimenting with more than 400 solutions, he evolved a secret process of dyeing and preserving them. His brother, who had netted $16,000 cutting the cheeks off waste halibut heads and selling them for 10? apiece, financed him. The industry...
Fortune of War. As it had often done before, war had forced the making of this pattern for peace. And by the fortune of war it is U.S. flyers who have had the big gest part in creating that pattern...