Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (by Barre Lyndon; Gilbert Miller, producer) is that highly desirable addition to any theatre season, a smart, smooth, crook play. The fact that the crooks involved are English considerably increases the play's novelty, for Playwright Lyndon's lawbreakers are scarcely the Edward G. Robinson type. They dress shabbily, do not use firearms and are abjectly terrified every time a tall, fatherly police sergeant appears to question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million...
...Union City, Tenn. a gaunt man staggered into an all-night café to get a bowl of chili, was jailed for drunkenness. Bailed out next afternoon he was found to be Methodist William Gilbert Gaston, field secretary of the Tennessee Anti-Saloon League. Leaguer Gaston objected that he had been framed by Wets, protested: "I would rather be dead than have such a thing occur." Militant Methodist Bishop Horace Mellard Dubose, the Tennessee League's president, regretfully proclaimed : "There is nothing we can do but sever him from the League. . . . The terrible curse of liquor...
...Vuoi"; "Master, Ades Florum" by Carter; "Der Jager Abschied" and "Jagdlied" by Mendelsohn; "The Coronation Scene" from "Boris Godounov" by Moussorgsky; two choruses and a ballet from "Orpheus" by Gluck; "At Father's Door," a Russian folk song; and "The March of the Peers" from "Iolanthe" by Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Dear Gill. . . . After what I hope will be a short period of time I count on your returning to national public service." So wrote Franklin Roosevelt last week consenting to the retirement of John Gilbert Winant, chairman of the Social Security Board. At the same time he boosted Board Member Arthur J. Altmeyer to Mr. Winant's job, appointed Murray W. Latimer, now chairman of the Railroad Retirement Board to the vacant place on Social Security...
From Harvard: James B. Conant '14, Merle Fainsod, Richard V. Gilbert '23, Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Edward Mims, Jr., Sumner H. Schlicter, Alan R. Sweezy '29, and John H. Williams...