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Word: gil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheap sports stopped talking and stared at her with the impudence fading out of their faces. A few years later, called Gilda Gray by that time, she went into the Ziegfeld Follies in Manhattan. Since then she has toured the U. S., acted in cinemas, allowed her husband, Gil Boag (against whom she has recently filed charges in a suit for divorce), to advertise her as well as any woman has ever been advertised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

What basis existed for thus supposing Governor Jackson a lawbreaker? Evidence from no less source than Indiana's Attorney General, Arthur L. Gilliom. Mr. Gil-liom has been opposed to the Wright (state prohibition) Law which, drier than the Volstead Act, does not permit whiskey to be sold in Indiana even on a doctor's prescription. Seeking the Governor's aid in amending the Wright Law, Mr. Gilliom last week wrote to Governor Jackson, reminded him that during Mrs. Jackson's recent attack of pneumonia, a doctor had prescribed whiskey for her. Mr. Gil-liom recalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Indiana | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...OUTLINE OF SANITY-Gil-bert K. Chesterton-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Glorifying the economic individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE CREAM | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Gil Blas and other French Novels," Professor Sever 23, English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 10/20/1926 | See Source »

...sounds as if this particular Cornell man had been sitting at the feet of that noted pessimist, Mr. Gil Dobie; and, if Mr. Doble has indirectly something to do with his disciple's disgust, the suggestion is all the more worthy attention from the wise heads who are sitting up of nights with American education and feeling its feeble pulse. Cornell's well-wishers are not the only amateur college presidents who mourn the decline of the tough specimen at college. Sports writers and alumni everywhere are likewise saddened to witness insidious attempts to make the American university into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DECLINE OF THE HE-MAN | 11/11/1925 | See Source »

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