Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since mordant Lyricist W. S. Gilbert thus mocked Britain's maligned Upper House of Parliament (in lolanthe), Her Majesty's Lords have had less and less to do with the making of British law or policy. Back in 1911, testy Commoner David Lloyd George, with the help of his King, cut the Lords' veto power to a mere delaying action. Six years ago, even their right to delay was curtailed...
...seized his chance. His government, said Faure, "will never agree to renounce, palter with, or open to question the French position in Morocco." But there must be a new policy for Morocco and a new man to implement it. Out went ineffectual Francis Lacoste as Resident General; in came Gilbert Grandval, 51, a former Resistance leader who built an impressive reputation by the way he administered the Saar after...
...preferred to remain in England. John Trumbull at 19 was an aide-de-camp to Washington and had viewed the battle on Bunker's Hill through field glasses from his post in Roxbury, but he resigned his commission in a huff and later departed for London. Gilbert Stuart, then 19, got away in the spring of 1775 aboard the last ship to escape the embargo in Boston Harbor. John Singleton Copley, best portraitist in the colonies, was a Tory sympathizer who left Boston in 1774, never returned...
...Colorado's historic Central City Opera House will be the scene of Gilbert & Sullivan operas, performed by London's famed D'Oyly Carte Opera Co., July 2-30. Four bills-The Mikado, Yeoman of the Guard, Trial by Jury and H.M.S. Pinafore, and lolanthe-will run for a week each...
...information as I have by reading TIME's MEDICINE section." Last week at the American Medical Association convention in Atlantic City, many doctors buttonholed and commended the man most responsible for TIME's continued accurate coverage of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's vaccine. That man is Gilbert Cant, 45, TIME's MEDICINE editor for the past six years, a TIME writer and correspondent for five years before that. Writing the cover story on Dr. Salk (March 29, 1954) gave British-born Editor Cant a searching interest in the Salk vaccine. In recent months, he has been...