Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Downstairs. In the many-colored state apartments are held the great social functions of the Presidency-the 75-place dinners on gold plate, the four crowded receptions with 2,500 officials and ladies invited to each...
...guest steps next into an oval room done in blue and gold. Formal gilt chairs stand at attention along the silken walls. The north end of the room is roped off with a plush cord, behind which, beholding the spectacle, stands an especially splendid group of persons, the prime guests of the evening...
...guest bows-and soon finds himself in the Genoese velvet Green Room. Just beyond is the spacious, cream-paneled East Room with gold damask draperies and twelve Æsop's Fables in low relief. Here amid more potted palms, the line of march disperses...
...Gold Fish. Duty of 33% asked to compensate for cheaper living conditions in Japan...
...moving the Freshmen is based upon the success of the present system of Freshman dormitories. This success, however, is purely accidental, the dormitories having been built more with an eye for such a plan as Mr. Harkness has made possible in conjunction with a desire to disintegrate the Gold Coast cliques than for any of the less tangible advantages which have accrued from assembling the first year men in the same group of buildings. As any change of affairs would have been a decided improvement over the prevalent assimilation of first year men prior to the construction of the Freshman...