Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gilbert and Sullivan, the Statue of Liberty, and James Whitcomb Riley also emerge among the bloodied victims of Monocle's shillelagh subtlety. Charles J. Prentiss's "Remembrance of Past Things," some peppered nostalgia for the soap-box liberal (in poetic form), is the only passable selection in the current issue's seventeen attempts...
Gilbert and Sullivan put it this...
Battle Against Bugs. Aerosol owes its existence to the anopheles mosquito. During World War II two young Department of Agriculture scientists, Lyle D. Goodhue and William N. Sullivan Jr., developed the "bug bomb" to kill mosquitoes. The Government got the patent on aerosol (it still licenses, free, all marketers of aerosol insecticides); Scientists Goodhue and Sullivan got nothing...
...office building, is as fiercely defended by a "Save the Jail" group, including Architecture Historian Henry Russell Hitchcock, who calls it "a treasure of which Pittsburgh is the custodian." Status: besieged but still standing. ¶ Chicago's Auditorium Building, the first major work of Chicago Pioneers Adler and Sullivan, which served as the setting for Republican Candidate Benjamin Harrison's nomination for the presidency in 1888, and is ranked by Frank Lloyd Wright as "the greatest room for music and opera in the world-bar none." Closed as a theater since 1940. used for three years...
...Sullivan gave the Canadian caperers a wide measure of autonomy. They may, and do, write their own classically zany material, hire their own supporting casts, ignore all advice except Sullivan's infrequent suggestions...