Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice Hely Hutchinson (writing for the Century) all attacked my famed criticisms of corporations. They agreed with me that many holders of common stocks are ignorant, lazy, simple. The Government should look after the investing simpleton, I have written. These three...
Plymouth, West 45th St. Gilbert and Sullivan, who show no aversion to good lyrics and music, which many modern musical comedy writers do, wrote this and "Iolanthe" (which gives Thursday evening performances). It is a good performance of a superb play...
...Among those who presented themselves at the White House last week were: Alanson B. Houghton, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations; Senator Watson of Indiana with the Glee Club of Notre Dame University; 50 house-to-house salesmen of the Fuller Brush Co., to handshake...
...permanent memorial to the late President Emeritus could be more fitting or more useful. Professor Gilbert Murray, it might be pointed out, first rented an apartment and then stayed with a private family. Charming as the latter may be, it can hardly be considered suitable that distinguished scholars should not be provided with proper living quarters of their own. This need President Eliot's house would fill to the utmost for obvious reasons...
Among Stillman's many benefactions to Harvard is the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, which he established in 1925, and of which Professor Gilbert Murray Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, England, was the first occupant...