Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garden of the Hotel Washington Irving in which six U. S. tourists were staying. Only Spaniards were killed. One, an expectant mother, convulsively gave birth to two dead babes as she expired. Later the Vicomte de Sibour, with a plane borrowed from London's Drygoods Sportsman H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. (TIME, Aug. 17), began taking off tourists, four at a time. To rescue the 19 remaining, General Queipo de Llano sent from Seville a giant German Junkers transport, escorted by a scouting plane. This outfit safely evacuated Granada's U. S. tourists, flying them to Seville, whence they...
...Governor was Burgin Estel Dossett, East Tennessee schoolteacher. Dossett was also the candidate of the present State Administration headed by Governor Hill McAlister, whom Boss Crump helped to elect. Six hours later Boss Crump announced: "We, what is generally known as the city and county crowd, will support Gordon Browning for Governor believing he is honestly the best...
Seeking a cause for this breach between Memphis' Boss and the Nashville Administration, quidnunes recalled that the McAlister organization had grievously disappointed Crump by failing to repeal Tennessee's prohibition law. Gordon Browning, a hefty, thick-thatched, loose-lipped A. E. F. artillery captain who served twelve years (1923-35) in the House of Representatives, is personally and politically Dry, but promised to advocate a State referendum on liquor...
...George Gordon Lord Byron's "lameness was due to congenital clubfoot of the talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected...
...product of his father's public career, his mother's piety, his uncle Horace's Taft School, Yale, the A. E. F. and Cincinnati's Charter movement. At Yale (Class of 1918) he was football tackle, basketball captain, Phi Beta Kappa, winner of the Francis Gordon Brown award for "good scholarship and high manhood." While his classmates were busy getting into officers' training camps, Taft enlisted as a buck private in the Army, got married before sailing for France. Returning a first lieutenant, he finished a Yale law course in 1921, stayed on through football...