Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well-Groomed Africa One of the brightest little art shows in Manhattan this week is the work of a Hollywood dress designer. But Gilbert Adrian, 48, is also a good man with a paintbrush, and after a six-week tour of Africa with his wife, Janet Gaynor, he has 19 oils to show...
...damned large rat," said the Duke. And there the matter has rested ever since. -Gilbert Murray, Stoic, Christian and Humanist D. E. STANTON Memphis, Tcnn...
...Tory platforms. Even Britain's Hesketh Pearson relishes nothing more than the tart flavor of a well-dished Whig-and Pearson denies that he is a Tory at all. In his time, he has written sympathetic biographies of such diverse spirits as Dickens, G.B.S., Oscar Wilde and Gilbert & Sullivan. But, Tory or no Tory, Biographer Pearson seems to see eye-to-eye with Dizzy on a great many matters of principle. He is strongly opposed, for one thing, to compulsory education beyond the three R's. For another, he is able to write of William Ewart Gladstone...
...discuss in your July 23 issue the presence and absence of Washington's dentures in Gilbert Stuart portraits of that famous statesman. To settle an argument, please let me know what Washington's dentures were really made...
...controversial Sculptor Jacob Epstein. In his last years, he changed his signature (from Walter to his middle name, Richard, because it seemed more euphonious), grew a sprawling beard and even changed his style. He painted oil versions of Victorian engravings by such artists as Cruikshank and Sir John Gilbert which were as highly colored and gay as his earlier paintings were low-keyed and grim. "It's such a good arrangement," he explained fliply. "Cruikshank and Gilbert do all the work and I get all the money...