Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quickly the name and picture of Special Constable Arthur Gordon Dick flashed around the world. Cried the excited wife of this Empire Hero...
About the same time Anthony Gordon Dick, a square-jawed furniture polish salesman telephoned his office that he would have to take half a day off to act as a special constable along the line of the King's march. He put on the flat-topped cap that distinguished Britain's part-time policemen from the helmeted professionals, and took up his post part way down Constitution Hill. He did not know it, but George Andrew McMahon was standing almost behind...
...main artery which feeds blood to that limb. Competent heart specialists and surgeons generally see such blood-starved limbs too late to save them from gangrene and amputation. Last week, by chance, a Chicago doctor, Geza deTakats, in the American Journal of Surgery, and a Toronto doctor, Donald Walton Gordon Murray, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, each gave explicit directions for locating such a destructive clot, removing it by surgery, thus saving the limb...
...Lords: ¶ Subjected the present National Government to its first defeat in the House of Lords by adopting, 32-to-29, a trivial amendment to the Education Bill opposed by His Majesty's Government but sponsored by the Most Reverend Father Cosmo Gordon Lang. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
...four wealthy New Yorkers got into an argument over which had the finest yacht. Upshot was the first ocean race, across the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to the Isle of Wight for a pot of $90,000 between Pierre Lorillard's 105-ft. Vesta, James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s 107-ft. Henrietta and the 106-ft. Fleetwing of George & Franklin Osgood. Choosing December as the windiest month, these three schooners set off with professional crews, many a misgiving in a rising wind. Vesta and Henrietta had their cockpits boarded over but not Fleetwing. On the eighth day, wallowing...