Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them all. The Senators were packed on the east side, the Congressmen on the west. Round and about were Ambassadors, Cabinet members, Generals, Admirals, everybody who could squeeze in. The cutaway was standard gear except for the military officers and foreign representatives who vied to outglitter one another with gold and brass...
...Boston was elected to lead the Mandolin Club, while George Wright Briggs of Taunton, will head the Banjo Club. C. M. Under-hill '30 was reelected to the post of Vocal Club leader while B. D. Hanighen '30 will take up the leader's baton before the Gold Coast Orchestra...
...bustling, up-to-the-minute Colonel Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, but the hoar and mighty Mansion House is just as Dickens knew it, and much as it has been for over 180 years. Trooping in, last week, to dine off the City's plate of gold, went not only H. R. H. but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Empire's choicest assortment of Industrial Tycoons marshaled by their dean, Baron Ebbisham, President of the Federation of British Industries. The guests were met?or thought they were?merely to toss off a few champagne toasts to the British Industries...
...gold racquets bat bandied back and forth between the Messrs. Mortimer and Pell since 1914 and won last fortnight by Mr. Pell at Tuxedo does not, as reported by TIME last week, symbolize the amateur championship but is comparable to the gold mashie played for annually on the private golf links of the late T. Suffern Tailer at Newport...
...token of the 250-year Byrd tradition, as precious as her wedding ring. It is a ring of old white gold set with diamonds. Two hundred years ago it belonged to Evelyn Byrd, "the fairest flower" of Colonial Virginia, who, when she was presented at the Court of St. James's, met the gallant Earl of Peterborough. They fell in love and became engaged to be married. But when Evelyn Byrd returned to Virginia, her father flew into a rage. The Earl was a Catholic. The daughter of a loyal Church of Englander might never marry him. The lovely...