Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shiloh, he was offered freedom if he would enlist in the Union Army. He enlisted, came down with dysentery, was discharged as unfit for further service, and ended the war in the Navy. Discovering a gift for journalism, he put it to work, finally took the eye of James Gordon Bennett, then No.1 U. S. newspaperman, editor of the New York Herald...
Stanley made two other African journeys: across the continent and down the Congo River to the Atlantic (an exploration which resulted in the formation of Congo Free State); and his most famed exploit-the relief expedition to Emin Pasha. When "Chinese'' Gordon was cut off in Khartoum by the Mahdi's fanatics, the only Egyptian force in the Sudan to escape annihilation was one commanded by Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer). To rescue Emin Pasha became The Thing in England: Stanley was put in charge of the expedition. Practically everything that could go wrong...
...England where tuberculosis among young women is also prevalent, two men, Drs. Ronald Walshaw & Gordon Smith, county tuberculosis officers for Worcestershire, blame cinemas and dance halls. Girls, they find, rush home from office, store or factory, snatch a hasty, insufficient meal, prance out to entertainment...
...decoration of the surrounding public rooms, for the most part the work of advanced young painters and sculptors encouraged by Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. In the lobby is a mighty mural by Ezra Winter. Yasuo Kuniyoshi decorated a ladies' "powder room" (toilet). The hands of Witold Gordon, Louis Bouche, Henry Billings, Donald Deskey (who art-directed the whole theatre) are in evidence...
...Shaw-Oxford University Press ($3.50). THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE-Hon-ore de Balzac-Liveright ($2). PLAYS & POEMS OF W. S. GILBERT- Random House ($3.50). RECORDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME-edited by Prentiss N. Gray- Derry dale Press ($10). RIDING REFLECTIONS-Piero Santini- Derrydale Press ($10). THE SILVER HORN-Gordon Grand- Derrydale Press ($7.50). TENNIS ORIGINS & MYSTERIES-Malcolm D. Whitman - Derrydale Press ($10). TROILUS & CRESSIDA-Geoffrey Chaucer -Random House ($3.50). See below. THE WESTERN PONY-William R. Leigh -Huntington Press...