Word: gavin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content to use the device of building crescendo by the steady growth of suspense, so they introduced shrieks, hysterics, faints, shots in the dark. The result is a conventional thriller which Stevenson, were he in the habit of haunting Broadway, would never recognize. The cast is competent enough, especially Gavin Muir, Hubert Druce and Marie Adels, but the general result is more mysterious than was intended...
...Died. Gavin McNab, 58, onetime hotel clerk, then lawyer, prominent Democratic leader of California, legal adviser to Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, Jack Dempsey, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, Mary Pickford; suddenly, in San Francisco...
Lieut. Arthur Gavin, U.S.N., to be presented with the Schiff Memorial Trophy for 1927 (for most hours of flying without accident in Navy planes...
...went to gaol if he got inextricably into debt-unless, of course, he had a daughter to marry off to a miserly spindle-legged monster. Peggy Wood, a maid passing fair, plays the daughter sold to a miser. But she has her consolation-a ruddy ragged redcoat, Captain Bragdon (Gavin Gordon). Who shall cast the first stone when he, disguised as a corpse and wheeled into the boudoir by the order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney Greenstreet) who engineered the titillating situation and kept...
...British Consul General delivered a solemn protest to the Chinese Government. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain in London swore that all British would be defended by every means from violence. "One foreign life for every Chinese life," was the Chinese answer printed on posters and later one Gavin, British subject, was bumped on the head...