Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blaine−"is peerless in blatancy. . . . On a heavy gold chain across his paunch he sports a large Elk's molar, a gift from admiring lodge brothers...
Mons (British) is a news-story of the retreat of the English Army, known to their opponents as "The Contemptibles," from Mons to the Marne. Lacking the realism of such War pictures as Gold Chevrons, and Behind the German Lines, parts of which were taken in battle, its photographic effectiveness does not make up for conventional directing and for the stressing of isolated episodes at the expense of the main narrative. Maps might have given a sense of the unseen enemy pushing back the actual army, now dead, of which these actors are the equivalents. As it is, the soldiers...
Cried the shocked President, "Escobar and the others are just common criminals!" The U.S. Government promised to search all Mexicans crossing the border for looted gold...
...Chrysostom's stands at No. 1424 North Dearborn Parkway, on the edge of Chicago's "Gold Coast." Originally it was a small vine-covered church. Now it looms, magnificently Gothic, splendid rival of St. James, Chicago's other great Episcopalian church...
...Abbott's salary as St. Chrysostom's rector was $20,000. His salary as Lexington's bishop will be $5,000. But he did not hesitate when he was offered the opportunity to move from the Gold Coast to the Blue Grass...