Word: gillettee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Gillette, the theater's late great Sherlock Holmes, was presumably at ease about the overwhelming stone castle and miniature railway he left on his hilltop estate at Hadlyme, Conn. The borzoi-faced star had been the live-steaming engineer on his three-mile Connecticut Nutmeg & Great Western, whipped...
gillette, n. Fast pitch near batter's whiskers.
The Senators' anger arose with the appearance of Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round column headlined: GILLETTE IS CHOSEN BY FARLEY TO BEAT ROOSEVELT IN 1944. The burden of Pearson's story was that James A. Farley had met with anti-Fourth Term Senators (including Missouri'...
According to the Senators, what really happened was that Gillette gave a luncheon for the Senators and Mr. Farley. They pondered ways of beating a Fourth Term nomination for the President, but neither discussed nor chose a candidate to do the wished-for scuttling. The keyhole eye of Columnist Pearson...
What to Do. As a clincher for his argument that something must be done about paper work, the colonel offers the case of the first sergeant on Bataan who was seriously wounded while crawling across a fire-swept area to take the morning report for his company commander to initial...