Word: gil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage show opens with a unique attraction. Before the very eyes of the audience beautiful paintings are completed in colored sand. They start out looking like nothing in particular and end up beautiful landscapes with all the brilliant color of Maxfield Parrish paintings. Gil Lamb and Schlepperman, of Jack Benny's radio programs, are both good for laughs throughout the rest of the show...
Strong quakes rocked three provinces of Argentina. In Buenos Aires Astronomer Martin Gil predicted violent upheavals within a week, a bad year for quakes in general, basing his prophecies on increase in sunspot activity...
...Foreign Affairs?onetime President Emilio Portes Gil...
...over 3,000 rebels shot, felt that the least he could do was to receive Lord Listowel & Commission in his private rooms at the Cortes. Spanish blood was up, Spanish honor at stake. Same afternoon, in the Cortes, Spain's No. 1 Catholic politician, Fascist José Maria Gil Robles, leader of the Catholic Popular Actionists, was as hot as any Spanish Communist against foreign probing of Spain's private atrocities. "Down with these Listowels!" roared Gil Robles, "put them across our frontier...
...Service in France, Poet Brewer sings a long paean to his old comrades of Tours, Issoudun and the Western Front. Riders of the Sky, "a combination of fact and fiction and legend," brings in many an actual person and event. Some of the characters: "Gil" Winant (now Governor of New Hampshire), Eddie Rickenbacker, the late Quentin Roosevelt, Frank Luke, "Hobey" Baker. Author Brewer's reference to himself among the catalog of heroes is modest...