Word: golconda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trotsky. Exiles from Tsardom, they had crossed on the little Spanish steamer Montserrat to live with relatives in The Bronx, were anxious to get to bed. To The Bronx their friend Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin took them, after showing off his precious Library. It was his gold mine, the dingy Golconda from which he was digging material for tome after ponderous tome, his monumental works on Capitalism and Communism...
Their candle blew out while an English metallurgist named Hodgson and his son, according to last week's despatches, were poking about the Golconda lead mine at Hopton, Derbyshire. In the blackness they saw a dull greenish glow. It came from a chunk of radioactive rock, no surprise in a lead mine.* The rock assayed $300 worth of radium to the ton, a new "natural resource" for Britain and science...
...Golconda, Ill., yielded a 17-foot mastodon spine from four yards of mud on the Ohio River bank...
...gardens, and traveled "over all the world" until he died; but he never found the jewels of which, sleeping and waking, he dreamt; while the man to whom he had sold his mansion found diamonds in the stream that watered the garden, thus discovering the famed mines of the Golconda. Taking the thread of this tale, Dr. Conwell elaborated it with over 30 minor anecdotes. He quoted Bailey, the Bible, Garfield, Grant, Robert E. Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson. In his delivery, he incorporated every known artifice of the pulpit, the stump and the vaudeville stage. He larded his sentences with such...
Owning leather companies today is not exactly a Golconda. Central Leather did poorly enough last year; this year has been a very unhappy one to its shareholders...