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Mr. Know-It-All: The 411 on Edward G. Robinson
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Question: For Christmas, I received a DVD starring Edward G.
Robinson. I'm hooked. I'm a fan of his and plan to add his movies to
my collection. Can you tell me what the initial "G" stands for? How
many Academy Awards did he win?
>V.H., Elmira, N.Y.
Answer: Edward Goldenberg Robinson Sr. (born Emanuel Goldenberg)
entered the world on Dec. 12, 1893, in Bucharest, Romania. His
family immigrated to New York in 1903. When he started acting, he
changed his name to Edward G. Robinson; the "G" represents his
original last name. He appeared in more than 100 films but was never
nominated for an ...
 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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It's that hot-air season again.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...Mother. Her letters to Archbishop Lang, quoted in yesterday's newspapers...letters sent in such copious numbers to Cosmo Gordon Lang, one of the chief architects of...Simpson in December 1936, Archbishop Lang added insult to injury by fulminating...
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The Church has a shameful record of appeasement
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...but of his predecessor at the See, Cosmo Gordon Lang, in the House of Lords debate at...that debate of October 5, 1938, Lang even went so sickeningly far as to...predecessors in appeasing dictatorship. As Lang said of the Czechs in the Munich...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Was this occult hypnotist behind the Abdication? Therapist 'may have pushed Edward VIII into drug addiction'.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...decision to abdicate - the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, wrote to a doctor friend: 'Dr Cannon seems from the...the throne. Alex Sargent, a chaplain to Archbishop Lang, wrote in his private notes: 'Those who knew the thing...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Britain Today: Queen Mother was stunned by abdication.(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; ...unpublished letters, opened to the public by Lambeth Palace. Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 to 1942, and...divorcee, Wallis Simpson, the Queen Mother wrote to Lang about her feelings. She said: aaI feel now rather as...
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A good man in a naughty world
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Archbishops of Canterbury fail. Dr Carey quotes Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang's famous dictum: The post is impossible for one man...impossible to resolve. What do Anglicans believe? Archbishop Lang could have referred an enquirer to the catechism of the...
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John North - In search of Kate Adie
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...Helmsley, in North Yorkshire. This time he was recalling Cosmo Gordon Lang, an early 20th Century Archbishop of Canterbury who...When a new hotel spoiled his favourite Highland view, Lang put a curse on it and, inexplicably, it burned down...
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Have you heard the one about the biographer and the Archbishop? It's in the Times
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...only good. The happiest relations were enjoyed between Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 until 1942, and...thought alike not because they were in cahoots (though Lang wrote to Dawson during the crisis ) but because they...
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Does the Anglican Church have an Israel problem?
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...parent body of America's Episcopal Church - was Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, who contended that "the Jews themselves" were to...By contrast, Rev. William Temple, who succeeded Lang as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1942, was an outspoken...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Very happy Christmas to you all... How the royal broadcast became an essential rite of the festive season.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...matched the charm of his first. (There was a new author, Cosmo Gordon Lang, the pompous Scot who was Archbishop of Canterbury...formidable consort. Yet it scarcely helped when Archbishop Lang drew attention to the King's stammer in a tactless...
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It's origin is unknown, but Oxford's tradition is still `ducky'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...disciplined for causing a ruckus in the night. By 1901, even Cosmo Gordon Lang, a fellow elected as Lord Mallard for that year's...their torches and lifted West on the same chair used by Lang in 1901. Outside the wrought-iron gates fronting Radcliffe...
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