Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shuttered nightclubs, the hand-lettered signs in the windows of stores: "Closed out of Reverence for F.D.R."; the unbroken, 85-hour dirge of the nation's radio; the typical tributes of typical Americans in the death-notice columns of their newspapers (said one, signed by Samuel and Al Gordon: "A Soldier Died Today...
Across the aisle, the Progressive Conservatives whooped and hollered, too-even though they had been caught flatfooted. When at last Progressive Conservative Opposition Leader Gordon Graydon could be heard, he said: "Well, Mr. Speaker, at last they have been forced to go to the country. . . . We shall be ready . . . to form the next Government...
Monstrous holes in the skull and other bones are now being mended with a sort of bone sawdust obtained from the patient himself. Toronto's Lieut. Colonel Stuart Douglas Gordon, 43, who developed the method, has even managed "rebuilding [of] the better part of a soldier's skull, including a completely new eye-socket and cheekbone." The material which Colonel Gordon uses, called cancellous bone, is the spongy substance found between hard bone and marrow. The body's biggest storehouse of it is the hip bone. In its new site, cancellous bone becomes hard and fixed within...
That Ruth Gordon has brought little originality into her first comedy is not disturbing; dialogue and mechanics modelled after Kaufman and Hart are bound to be good. And while a season in New York should have smoothed out some of the tedious bits in the book, the basic situation of "Over Twenty-One" is still timely and Miss Gordon's acting is still appealing...
...Miss Gordon's part is based on Dorothy Thompson, who's supposed to be married to Ingersoll--the lampoon breaks down a bit here. From the facts pointed out above, it should be clear that the chitchat in "Over Twenty-One" is of the sort associated with the ante-rooms of the New Yorker...