Word: gordon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Montreal last week, grey-haired Michael Gordon Fulker, 41, sat at a three-minute hearing in the Court of King's Bench, heard the Crown say it had no evidence to offer, listened attentively as Justice Wilfrid Lazure solemnly added: "You have suffered enough...
...Navy wife in Washington, listening to the radio, recognized the lyrics. Her Annapolis-trained husband, Captain William Gordon ("Slim") Beecher, who commands a destroyer squadron in Tokyo Bay, wrote them. Mrs. Beecher remembered that some of her husband's 116 previous compositions had done well-his Song of Old Hawaii had been a 1938 hit. Passing up no bets, Mrs. Beecher visited the copyright office next...
...Deep Are the Roots, the authors of Tomorrow the World bring a Southern Negro back from war to the Bourbon Senator's household in which he grew up. Having become an officer, a hero and the accepted equal of white Europeans, Brett Charles (Gordon Heath) has a new and far less subservient conception of himself and his race. When he takes some trifling liberties, the Senator (Charles Waldron) gets so blazing mad, so hell-bent on punishing the boy, that he pins on him the theft of a missing watch...
...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
Born. To William H. Vanderbilt, 43, ex-Governor of Rhode Island, now a gentleman farmer after four years in the Navy, and Anne Gordon Colby Vanderbilt, 37: their third (his fourth) child, a son. Name: William Henry Jr. Weight: 8 lbs. 2½ oz. When their twin daughters (now 14) were forecast by X ray in 1931, Lloyd's of London promptly upped its rates on insurance against twins...