Word: gill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Merton of the Movies. Lacking the smouldering satire of the book, deprived of the caustic cleverness of the play, slightly distorted as to plot, the camera version of Merton Gill still reveals him as one of the strong men in the cinema sideshow. Probably the heart of the story is too vigorous to skip a beat just because certain outward features are differently applied. Merton has now been played in all the available roles, differently each time and each time with enviable effect...
...reserves, it is probably true that the prosecution has been carried on with more thoroughness than foresight as to whether the accomplishments will balance the cost of the prosecution. So far the $100,000 expenditure is equivalent to buying every family in the country almost a gill of gasoline at retail prices. If the entire affair does not cost Uncle Sam's children more than a pint per family, they will be reasonably lucky...
HARVARD Mc GILL Walker, l.w. r.w., McNaughton Hodder, c. c., McGerrigle Beals, r.w. l.w., O'Donnell Chase, l.d. r.d., McMahon Crosby, r.d. l.d., Dempsey Newell, g. g., Morris...
...accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian; Archipenko...
...Savannah, Ga., Francis Marion Gill, a Confederate veteran aged 81, laid claim to being " the oldest father in the U. S." by reason of a boy born a year ago to his wife, aged...