Edward Gordon, 1872–1966, English stage designer, producer, and author.
a male given name: from a Welsh family name meaning “rock.”
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Last year, Salesforce appointed Craig Shull to become its first-ever chief pricing officer.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Michael Eisenberg, who co-owns the swim equipment business with his brother, Craig, worries about losing clientele.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
“In general, yes, if benefit costs are accelerating, it limits what is available for salary increases,” said Craig Copeland, director of wealth-benefits research with the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Bur Craig said she was "excited" about the challenge and would not "stop at the levels of growth that we have achieved".
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Craig was never one to be the bad cop, and my mother stuck to her self-imposed ceasefire on matters of my father’s health.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Tak’ you care, my bonnie young man, that your craig doesna feel the wecht o’ your hurdies.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis
I have a rope, Roger," Oswald began, "that will reach from the turret to the foot of the craig.
From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Peacock, Ralph
So there was he, hingin’ by a line an’ speldering on the craig face, whaur it’s hieest and steighest.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
She sought him east, she sought him west, She sought him braid and narrow; Syne, in the cleaving of a craig She found him drown'd in Yarrow.
From In the Border Country by W. S.
He rose and ran for the bored craig, through which lay the straight line to his abandoned boots.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
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