Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...changes in the list of associates were also announced last night. Edwin S. Amazeen '31, former Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House, has been obliged to resign because he is no longer available for the noon luncheon in Cambridge. Alan McNaughton Gordon Little, instructor in Greek and Latin, has been appointed to the list of associates...
Lieutenant Bill Gordon (William Powell) is a master of enciphering and deciphering codes, conceals the fact from his superiors because he hankers for action at the front. He makes the mistake of telling this to Joel (Rosalind Russell), a girl whom he meets at a charity bazaar and who falls shamelessly in love with him. When she tells her uncle, the Assistant Secretary of War, about his talents, Gordon is ordered to a desk in the decoding room. Disgruntled but still as suave as ever, Gordon decodes intercepted German wirelesses which show a U. S. transport in danger, comes...
Accompanied by his daughter Violette, Vicomtesse de Sibour, and by a French-Swedish actress named Marcelle Rogez whom he plans to bring to the attention of Hollywood, Harry Gordon Selfridge...
...heavy ormolu frames, are there now. Of these only three are out of the ordinary: 1) the first Speaker of the House, bewigged, pompous Frederick Muhlenberg, copied by Samuel B. Waugh from an earlier portrait by Joseph Wright; 2) Champ Clark, best-known Speaker, by Boris Gordon; 3) Thomas B. Reed, which happened to be painted by John Singer Sargent. By custom, the family of the Speaker may suggest artists for the portrait but the Library Committee makes the final choice...
First across the line was a portrait by Hans Schlereth of Washington, D.C. Largest portrait was a slick study by Howard Chandler Christy. Most insistent was Artist Boris Gordon who yowled that the commission be awarded to his picture without further ado largely because he produced the official Speaker's portrait of Champ Clark. Other portraits were by Paul Trebilcock, Students E. Egley and Ruth Van Sant of Washington's Corcoran Gallery, Student Lloyd Embry of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Nicholas Richard Brewer of St. Paul, Edwin B. Child of Dorset...