Word: gilbert
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Redoubtable First Lady Dolley Madison had watched for the progress of the British marauders through White House windows with a small telescope. When she saw the smoke from the fire at the Capitol, she ordered the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington cut from its frame and rolled up, put in a cart with other valuables and trundled off to Virginia. That is the image of Dolley Madison that lives on in history. But in the immediate aftermath of the sack of Washington, the press vilified both her and her husband for cowardice even as the new nation experienced...
Outside Austin Hall, McCauley and Morley were caught and arrested by officers Lakin, Andrew Gilbert, George White and David McLane...
...expected to decipher massive amounts of information in a very short period of time," says Helen L. Gilbert '02. "They really expect you to know what you're talking about...
...Gilbert and Sullivan...
This classic Gilbert and Sullivan musical has become one of the most enduring and long-lasting productions in the realm of Harvard theater. Filled with gallivanting pirates, puns and paradox, this theatrical masterpiece has it all. A great show that can be enjoyed over and over, Pirates is an uplifting piece replete with songs and witty humor. New cast members mixed with returning experience makes for a well-balanced, fresh production. "This is one of the few shoes one can do (and do well) and not have to take seriously," co-producer Dennis Clark said. "It's a little intellectual...