Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there died Senator Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, able blatherskite, onetime running mate of Presidential runner-up William Jennings Bryan. Georgia Democrats elected as his successor one Walter Franklin George. Soon thereafter Washington correspondents, led by Clinton W. ("Mirror") Gilbert and Mark Sullivan, cheered loudly for Senator George. At 44, he was a distinguished lawyer, brilliant orator, a rather impressive figure on the Senate floor. He was no bombaster of the Tom Heflin school, no ranting humorist of the Pat Harrison species. His popularity grew; people began to say that the South was having a political renaissance, that soon...
...Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who had just conferred at Antibes, French Riviera, with Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and at Geneva, Switzerland, with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Director of the German Reichsbank? What, moreover, was Agent General of Reparations S. Parker Gilbert saying to Secretary Mellon and Mr. Strong...
...DIARY OF A YOUNG LADY OF FASHION IN THE YEAR 1764-65-Cleone Knox- Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr-Appleton. (TIME, Feb. 15, BOOKS.) *Once famed as "the wittest high court judge in England." Recently retired after degenerating into what W.S. Gilbert called "that Nisi Prius nuisance, the Judicial humorist." †A few gentlefolk still vacation at this British equivalent of Atlantic City...
...Cleveland, Gilbert Frankau explained his propagandist motive. "I love my country deeply," said he. "I would give my all for her. I think I proved that some years ago." (He was a captain of infantry and he still, contrary to British army regulations, uses the title.) Before the National Press Club in Washington, he surveyed his audience after a brief introduction. "I do not want to bore you," he protested, "with any personal history of myself. ... I do not think any person's personality is as interesting as his job.?? ... I will say I came...
...committee for last week's celebration foretold the distinction that will attach to the ceremony in December. There were Senator Carter Glass of Virginia (toastmaster), Vice President Charles G. Dawes, Chief Justice William H. Taft, Chinese Minister Dr. Alfred Sze, Representative Theodore E. Burton and Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, head of the National Geographic Society. Other U. S. notables whose undergraduate studies or mature achievements have won them membership in P. B. K.: John W. Davis, Charles E. Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Pupin, Owen D. Young, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis D. Brandeis, Edward Terry Sanford, Harlan Fiske Stone, Robert...