Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arguing for the victorious Beal Co. were Walter R. Bellatti and Phil E. Gilbert. However all eight members of the Powell Club collaborated in the preparation of the brief. The Langdell Co. was represented orally by Robert B. Wolf and Robert Braucher, although the brief was the joint work of the entire Simpson-Sayre group...
Unlike these three old-fashioned rousers, Royal Regiment, by Gilbert Frankau (Dutton, $2.50), is as modern as gas masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...
Scandal. In Bernarr Macfadden's Photoplay appeared an article called Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives, purporting to "expose" the relationships of couples like Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, Virginia Pine and George Raft, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin, Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland. Excerpts: "Barbara freezes homemade ice-cream for Bob from a recipe his mother gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year...
...William Gilbert, who was Queen Elizabeth's personal physician but used his spare time to putter with electricity and magnetism, discovered that when iron is hot it loses its magnetism. That was about 1600. Late in the 19th Century, Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, discovered that-although magnetism is gradually lost with rising temperature-an abrupt change occurs at a certain heat above which iron, nickel and cobalt cease in effect to be magnetic. This critical temperature chemists call the Curie point. These two discoveries underlie the operating principle of a new alloy announced last week in Instruments...
...final match was lost by Pete Cunningham to Gilbert M. Congdon; Cunningham failed to win any of the games, whose scores were...