Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thirty Minutes in a Street", with 20 characters in the cast, at one extreme, and Diona Barnes' "The Dove", with three, at the other. It is expected, however, that because of its gorgeous setting and costumes, Professor, Eliot will bring Dunsany's "Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles" to Boston...
Sargent was a great draughtsman and well equipped to champion, in a leveling age, the traditions of an imperious past. The Boston murals all treat classic subjects: Chiron teaching a very delicate Achilles how to handle a bow; Atlas stooping among the golden girls of the Hesperides; Hercules, with a billet the size of a railroad tie in his fist, fencing with the Hydra's ducking heads...
...wore a mitre. The celebrant passed in a rich red damask chasuble, followed by a deacon and a subdeacon in dalmatic and tunic. Last of all came the bishop of the diocese, the Right Reverend Chauncey B. Brewster, preceded by cross and candles and by his chaplain bearing the golden pastoral staff, emblem of his tenure. They proceeded between the lines of people up to the high altar, which blazed like a bonfire of lilies...
...victims were probably thrown. He hurled in logs of human weight to approximate the drowning spot. He brought in a dredge, and after removing tons of mud put on his rubber armor and steel helmet, dropped down and recovered 90 skeletons and a priceless collection of jade and golden images, now on view at the Peabody museum. The Carnegie Foundation will carry on his work...
...that deep down in the placid pools of my nature the really worth while, the golden ingots of my impressions are stored, forevermore. And when I am old and gray, and the years have gently laid the veil of life aside, I shall sit before a flickering fire of dying embers, and I shall dream, and out of the shadowy past shall trail sweet memories, fragments of joys and sorrows and ambitions. Strong, white hands, angel-hands, from muted strings shall lure bushed melodies, and once again I shall stand on the steps of Widener and gaze across the beloved...