Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual 8:20 a.m., the President was given a fat manila folder full of birthday greetings from around the world, with a hefty sheaf from Kansas City and Missouri. On his desk was a white-iced angel-food cake. Among his birthday presents: 64 red roses, a new gold World War I service button, a fancy rifle, a miniature bronze horse from a nine-year-old in Douglas, Wyo. who shares his birthday...
...years ago he stole another long race?the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup ?exactly the same way. But he isn't always the best rider on every horse. One very good one that he can't ride is Stymie, greatest of the money-earners (with $823,560). He once rode Stymie, whom he says he doesn't "fit," admitted that he must have looked like Ned the Coachman coming down the stretch...
...will have all my beds blown up, not stuft: Down is too hard . . . Then, my glasses Cut in more subtle angles, to disperse And multiply the figures, as I walk Naked between my succubae . . . My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agat set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. My footboy shall eat pheasants...
...return to the Gold Standard is necessary if we are to "Improve Free Enterprise in the United States," Thomas Hewes told the Free Enterprise Society last night...
...Clock. A handsome, gold-filled thriller about a murdering magazine magnate; with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton (TIME, April...