Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. Embassy in Madrid recently returned a half-forgotten Gilbert...
...addition to several likenesses of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette, the first draft of an honorary degree presented by Harvard to the Marquis in October 21, 1784, will be on display in the main courtyard through the balance of the week...
Unseeing Search. A pretty, 17-year-old Maryland high-school girl named Carolyn Jane Barker was sitting in the car with her boy friend, 19-year-old Lawrence Gilbert. The pair-interrupted just as the boy had presented an engagement ring-were too startled to utter a sound. Irwin yanked out his pistol. "Drive me to Virginia," he said, dramatically, "the FBI is after...
...talk about this before midnight," he said, "I'll kill the girl." He turned Gilbert loose, and got on a Washington-bound bus with Carolyn. "I know a cheap hotel," he confided. "I'll kill you if you scream." When they walked into the lobby, she winked desperately at a lounging marine; the marine simply winked back. She wept when Irwin shut the door of their room. She was forced to submit to him four more times during the night...
When the pair emerged on the street the next morning, the Washington cops were scouring the city for them; young Gilbert had gotten to a police station by 8 a.m., had pointed to Irwin's picture on a "Wanted" poster, and told the whole story. Yet no one spotted the fugitive and his captive. Irwin hocked Gilbert's watch and the engagement ring for $15, and forced the girl into a bus. Irwin grew confidential again. He was going to rob a rich uncle in Doylestown, Pa. and "give...