Word: gibson
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Book this year is written by David J. Conroy '39 and Thomas O. Hunter '39, both Pi Eta alumni now first-year men at the Law School. Music is by Robert A. Gibson and James B. Lynch, with lyrics by Richard G. Dorr '36, who wrote the book for Pi Eta's 1940 hit, "Say the Word...
...pictures," the censors said. Oh cruel words! Oh cold, cold world! WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE PICTURES? Isn't the aforesaid vision the successor to the Gibson Girl; isn't she as typically American as a corner drug store? If she can be crushed out by blue-noses at will, to "satisfy them Back Bay Puritans", as a character on the Square affirmed, won't cigarettes, Coolidge specials, and bedtime stories be next? And anyhow, is that any way to treat a lady...
Reconstruction. Londoners were determined to turn Hitler's destruction into a "Heaven-sent" opportunity for civic improvement, and as dynamite squads reduced tottering walls and chimneys, the press blossomed with articles on post-war construction. Wrote Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, architect assigned to the task of rebuilding Coventry: "[London] was the great magnet, but owing to the misapplication of democratic principles it became a mass of barbarity in which too many sought to better themselves at the expense of others. . . . Meanwhile, looking on impotently was a great body of highly trained architects and planners visualizing rational and ordered plans...
When the American Express Co. sold off its motorized wheel chairs after the New York World's Fair, Fair President Harvey Gibson bought three to scoot around his estate...
...said George Gibson...