Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prospectors among the eucalyptus and olive groves of San Francisco's flowering little World's Fair last week struck gold at three points. All three were ambitious installation jobs; none had been completed for the opening, fortnight...
...ROPE OF GOLD-Josephine Herbst-Harcourt, Brace...
...Rope of Gold avoids the Depression, skips to 1933-1937, a period which has ruined even more novels than the Depression. Josephine Herbst, however, comes through solvent...
...episodic novel that sprawls all over the place (Pennsylvania, Michigan, South Dakota, New York, Cuba), Rope of Gold is equally prodigal with characters. The four main ones are an intellectual farm organizer and his wife; a rising automobile manufacturer; a union organizer in the automobile factory. The characters and the events are both much like those to be found in hackneyed left-wing novels. But Author Herbst is no propagandist; there are no revolutions around the corner; her characters move under their own power; their crises occur inside themselves instead of on picket lines...
...hockey teams both emerged victorious to remain tied for first place in the inter-House league. The Funsters beat Dudley 4 to 2, while the Rabbit stickmen jumped on Lowell to the tune of 5 to 0. Winthrop and Kirkland registered a 1 to 1 tie, and the Adams Gold Coasters coasted over Eliot...