Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industry, saving and character ever devised, that a well-managed mutual company is a cooperative society for the advancement of the public welfare. ... I accept the nomination. . . ." Mrs. Coolidge may benefit financially from her husband's new work. The company's directors are paid $50 in gold for each board meeting and $20 in gold for each committee meeting. By custom these payments are turned over to directors' wives some of whom last year profited to the extent of $4,100 in this way. Mr. Coolidge, retired public servant, is not alone in being elevated to high...
...careers of Winston, who entered the War as Chief of the British Admiralty, switched to Secretary of War and later Air, emerged from the conflict as Colonial Secretary, became Chancellor of the Exchequer and four years ago put the depreciated pound sterling back on gold. Last week a hearty cheer greeted the versatile, rubicund, dynamic Chancellor as he bustled into the house at 3:18, just three minutes after Edward of Wales had taken, his favorite gallery seat above the clock. Breathlessly the whole empire waited. No advance copies of the speech had been given out. What was up Wins...
...when the law failed. A labyrinthine maze of blood and thunder, his latest concoction works itself up to a grand finale with airplanes training guns on a London riverfront den of vice, and deadly snakes slithering across the floor toward a lovely victim. That she was heiress to a gold-mine in South Africa she did not know; but her half-demented captor knew; and the Three Just Men knew-almost too late. The man who was bringing her the deeds was fatally and mysteriously struck in the neck. Two tiny pricks in a patch of angry red flesh suggested...
...Brother Lawrence, as to the other Fishers, the world of mechanics is understandable, governed by ineluctable laws of physics. The Fishers have learned these laws well and by their aid gained gold. But it was quite another world which Brother Lawrence faced last week, a world strange and unaccountably called Art. Upon its vague terrain, he was nonplussed, vexed. That is why he cried, "Hell's ringing bells...
...about it. . . . Ever since . . . that story about the phoney Romney - if it is phoney - I have had to have 15 or 20 guards around my house. When people hear about you paying a lot of money for a picture they get the idea that your house is lined with gold and they do everything but climb into your bedroom windows. Honest, I wish this thing would die down. I'm sick of hearing about...