Word: gillman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that will accept the committee is the Bonnie Bell, crawling with roaches and lechers. In the night, dark sedans run round & round the hotel. May Diehl, the committee's case worker, whimpers atop a chair. In another room the teacher, Tom Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have been beating each other...
...free, public lecture on "The History of the Christian Hymn Book" will be given tomorrow evening by Frederick J. Gillman, of London, at Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, at 7 o'clock, under the auspices of the Society of Friends...
Branching into elementary zoology Gillman informed the court that an ahu was a Central Asian gazelle, an ani a Brazilian variety of the keel-billed cuckoo. No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge...
...Gustave Gillman did not win. Many of his words were rejected as Scottish slang, dialect, obsolete. Contestant Gillman later lost a similar contest held by Consolidated Cigar Corp., won an out-of-court settlement on the prize money. With this experience behind him he filed suit against Phillips Chemical for all of the $600, charging that the judges had fraudulently deleted words from his lists. Last April the case was tried in Manhattan Municipal Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom...
...dictionary, every one of the 40,000 contestants could come into court, contending that his or her list was the proper winning roster of words. . . ." Last week, having boiled down the case to the real issue of whether or not the contest judges had fraudulently deleted words from Gillman's roster, Referee Cragen dismissed the suit with a two-letter word...