Word: gordon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paper, Haggin has a comic gift for impersonating musical stuffed shirts. He can also tell howlers on himself: once, at a concert, when he glared at Violinist Jacques Gordon, who was noisily shuffling a score, Gordon glared back at the noiseless Haggin and growled: "Shut...
Doing polkas at the "Arbiter Club" were Paul Kelley, John Baxter, Chris Kotthof and Gordon Koppert. Something on the order of the "Fife and Drum" and the "Silver Dollar," this place simply overflows with folklore and good beer...
Cash from Waxey? The committee learned that the company had started in business on $35,000 from a Brooklyn trucker and Sam Lazar, Philadelphia's pinball tycoon. But the committee suspected that the cash actually came from Waxey Gordon and that he ran Worldwide, which had contracted for well over $100,000 in surplus property. The committee thought that the quickest way to find out was to ask Waxey. The committee was wrong...
After two hours, Waxey Gordon had filled 28 pages of testimony with nothing. The committee then decided to let the Department of Justice continue the investigation of Waxey. Wearily, Senator James M. Mead waved him from the stand, warning: "We are going to ... keep out all rackets and chiseling in connection with the sale of these goods...
While the Sun Shines (By Terence Rattigan; produced by Max Gordon) called forth critical comparisons with Noel Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Voice of the Turtle. The comparisons, however, were on a basis of genre rather than genius; Playwright Rattigan's sun starts to set after a bright first act. Mixing all-too-familiar elements, While the Sun Shines winds up as both a mongrel and a bit of a museum piece...