Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come...
...tied up at Shed 8. Her skipper, John Bissett Smith, had brought in the first ocean-going ship of the season, and thus officially opened Montreal harbor for 1947 business. For some 125 years, the master of the spring's first overseas ship has been given a gold-headed cane. Skipper Smith...
Last week, Moscow operagoers were seeing a performance of Boris that justified its labor pains. A chorus of 180 voices rocketed Mussorgsky's somber music to the gilded ceiling of the huge red & gold Bolshoi Theater. A whole class of children from the Bolshoi ballet school, as well as a large company of nonsinging extras, filled out the stage. Standout scene: the coronation, full of massive bells, the swelling crescendos of the huge orchestra and blazing pageantry...
Great Playthings. Little gold ducks waddled after pearls in unending alternation, to make a necklace handsome enough for a 5th Century princess. Ivory saints beckoned from panels small enough to put in a wallet. Rams and lions from ancient Antioch displayed their gold and silver manes in 5th Century mosaics. There was a polished statuette of Astarte, the pagan goddess of fertility, whose memory died hard among the Christian farmers of Northern Syria. Bronze oil lamps, surmounted by leaping lions and the hooked beaks of griffins, stood dry and wickless under glass. Once the lamps had flickered, fiercely golden...
...renamed Constantinople) simply for the fun of planning new and better ones'. Theophilus liked such playthings as a pair of life-size golden lions, which crouched before his throne and roared, lashing their tails, on state occasions. He also had a golden tree, sheltering a host of gold birds which warbled and flapped their wings...