Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final day President Sean O'Kelly and his wife Phyllis drove into the grounds in an open landau, surrounded by an elegant escort of blue-&-gold uniformed hussars. Two of the horses pulling the landau, unnerved by the excitement of the occasion, reared, almost overturned the landau, broke loose and dashed off. The hussars scattered. Dubliners considered this incident alone made the show a success. When Eire's No. 1 Army band (conducted by a German) played God Save the King!, Eamon de Valera smiled sourly as he stood at attention in what used to be the royal...
With a bone-rattling roar, seven low-slung speedboats charged down Long Island's Jamaica Bay to start the first of three 30-mile heats in the International Gold Cup race. Most eyes were on 45-year-old Bandleader Guy Lombardo, the defending champion, half obscured by his helmet and Mae West as he hunched in the cockpit of his 600-h.p., red-gold-&mahogany Tempo VI. More than a famous name and expensive pressagentry made Lombardo the favorite. Other speedboat drivers had to admit that he was "a hot chauffeur" with a well-balanced boat that should have...
...show signs of fallibility. Once around the three-mile course and slightly in the lead, Tempo VI hit a floating obstacle in the rough water, ripping the fragile skin off its starboard front sponson; Lombardo had to slow up to prevent shipping too much water. Notre Dame, the 1937 Gold Cup winner, went on to win the first heat, then had engine trouble and missed the second entirely. Albin Fallon's Miss Great Lakes had engine trouble, fell behind; three other boats dropped out altogether...
...grownups with toothache, who cannot be helped by these preventive measures, there were a few crumbs of comfort. Best crumbs: an anesthetic for painless drilling (applied to the tooth without a hypodermic) called "topocaine", a new kind of gold crown for front teeth, so cunningly contrived (by the University of Washington's Dr. Arthur Schultz) that the gold doesn't show...
...doctrine, even in its final Götterdammerung convulsions. Martin Bormann, faithful to the end, pumped the Führer full of false hopes. Göring, in his Prussian retreat, dressed "now like an oriental Rajah, now in a light-blue uniform with a bejeweled baton of pure gold and ivory, now in white silk, like a Doge of Venice . . . studded with jewels . . . and a swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism of the suppression of the harp in Ulster, and the occult significance...