Word: gordian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This problem has long been a Gordian knot for which the dull wits of the responsible officials have been no cleaving sword. But a simple man and true, an honest yardcop, the flower of Colonel Apted's force, could shear the tangled threads. He would divert traffic from Widener's airy porch, the prime lurking lair of homicidal chauffeurs. To do this he would open the at present unused gate by Harvard Hall, where trucks bearing heavy burdens would be admitted, and at which the carriers of light parcels, laundrymen and such, would be denied the luxury of motor transportation...
...Prize). Wisconsin knows her as a liberal in education (onetime regent of its University, her alma mater), as a progressive in politics (she took the stump in 1924 for the last "Fighting Bob'' La Follette), as a humanitarian writer with many a past and present protege (David Gordian, Anzia Yezierska, the late Margery Latimer Toomer et al.). Other books: Birth, Friendship Village, Bridal Pond, Portage, Wisconsin, and Other Essays...
...Harding, film actress (Her Private Affair, Devotion, Paris Bound}; and Harry Bannister, film actor. Said Actress Harding: "We have been placed in a position which is untenable. . . . He [Bannister] is losing his identity . . . as 'Ann Harding's husband.' . . . We have decided . . . to cut the Gordian knot...
...form or another, catching fish has always been Mr. Thompson's hobby. The once-mighty Capone is contemplating the stripes in his new suit, while his henchmen maintain bread-lines from the profit of their labors. The city has six hundred fifty thousand unemployed, and a financial Gordian knot which has yet to find its Alexander. Whatever its future may bring, history will record that in the decade which has just closed Chicago was preeminent for public vulgarity, organized corruption and imbecility in high place...
...vote with the Labor Party in extending to India that large measure of self-government under the Crown which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald has long been eager to grant. Standing together, Laborites and Liberals could, of course, outvote the Conservatives in the House of Commons, could cut the Gordian knot of India-wisely or unwisely...