Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engagement Denied. Lew Cody, cinema actor, to Dora Goldberg Gressing Northworth Gordon "Nora" Bayes (TIME, Aug. 25). Said he: "I wish it were true. It's fiction...
...developed through the years. For himself he selected the cipher word 'Andes,' modestly taking the name of the second highest altitude on the earth's surface. He commonly went by the code name in office conversation. . . . Colonel George B. M. Harvey was 'Sawpit'; James Gordon Bennett came over the cable as 'Gaiter' and William R. Hearst as 'Gush.' For William J. Bryan, two code designations were used: 'Guilder' and 'Maxilla,' the latter possibly a delicate reference to jaw. Pomeroy Burton became 'Gumbo,' perhaps...
...occurred the rise of the Madhi, "Guide of Islam," whose policy was to evict the Egyptians. Then followed the defeat of the Egyptians, the murder of General Gordon, the campaign under Field Marshal Lord Wolsley and later that by an Anglo-Egyptian force under General Sir H. Kitchener (later Field Marshal Lord Kitchener...
Engaged. Dora Goldberg Gressing; Norworth Clarke Gordon Bayes (known to theatre-goers as Nora Bayes), blond vaudeville actress, to Lew Cody, cinema actor; in London...
...present incumbent of York is a mighty man in England, The Right Hon. and Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D. His silk stockings and silver slippers are known throughout the land. On industrial problems his words carry an almost pontifical authority. When he speaks, England harkens...