Word: gil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a long time since he had been a private citizen. Gil Winant, a rich man's son, had spent most of his life in some kind of service to his country. As a scraggly youth at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., he had developed a. burning interest in U.S. history. As a Princeton undergraduate he had left college in 1912 to campaign for Roosevelt...
F.D.R. brought him to Washington, in 1941 sent him to Great Britain as Ambassador. The English loved absentminded, honest Gil Winant. Once, when asked to make a speech, he stood in agonized silence for four minutes, finally said, softly: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place...
Jersey Level. Standard,Gil Co. of New Jersey, which refused to hike its gasoline prices two months ago, won a price skirmish over competitors who did. As new customers flocked to Standard stations, the Texas Co. and Shell Oil cut the price of their gasoline by ½? a gallon to the "Jersey level." Most of Standard's other competitors followed suit, while smaller companies prepared to fall into line...
...Florence Freeman) follows him, shrills out 45 seconds of "women's news," promptly plunges into her tortured fictional love life. By the end of the first broadcast, the new heroine was in an old, all-too-familiar lather. "She turns deathly pale," the announcer confided, "and, but for Gil Kendal's ready arm, would fall...
...sure that all a songwriter has to do to panic Park Avenue nightclubbers is to write lyrics that insult them enough. But when the Big Chance comes, the customers don't see it his way and Eddie and his good friends Miss Edwards, Constance Moore and Gil Lamb are suddenly at liberty...