Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GOLDEN...
...trek of ambitious realtors, promoters, sure-fire salesmen and other energetic persons to Florida resembles the Yukon rush, except that it is being made despite heat rather than cold. Advertisements of golden opportunities in Florida land appear everywhere throughout the country. The entire country is speculating upon it. Enthusiasm waxes hottest in Miami, where brokers exhaust voices and nerves from 7:30 a. m. to 12 p. m. daily...
Fred B. Smith of Manhattan, explained to the guests-(.bishops, priests, laymen of nearly every country, and of every Christian faith except the Roman Catholic) - that with just such a meal, the U. S. would celebrate Golden Rule Sunday on Dec. 6. By as much as rice and prunes would reduce the U. S. family budget on that day, by so much would Armenia, Syria, Palestine, Greece profit...
...spirit fetches him back through time to such scenes as the burning of Pythagoras and his Golden Brotherhood, Leonardo picking up fossils on the Florentine hills, Darwin bareheaded before an ant in Kent, Huxley impaling bland Bishop Wilberforce before the British Association. The latter episode, vividly reconstructed, is the high point of the narrative and is brought into sharp relief by a humorous glimpses of Miss Eliza Pym of Woodstock, blushing furiously but consumed with curiosity to hear that the wild flowers she draws in delicate, virginal water-colors have...
From the palace to church, to the City Cathedral went King Gustav V, incredibly tall, hiding a princely reticence behind a beard, under a high-hat, beneath a long-coat, a stand-up collar, a glittering pincenez. With him rode his Queen, golden-haired in buxom middle...