Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen along that street, but at night the doors of the rickety houses open and the occupants come forth. Their black faces blend adeptly with the night; their bodies are blurred shadows in doorways, or lazy silhouettes revealed where street-corner bars and laundries drip golden honey into the darkness. They seem not to have a wish in the world, these limber shadows, except to idle, waiting for a hypothetical friend to treat them to a phantom beer, or listening to the mutter and shuffle 'of jazz that issues from the garish arcade of the Paradise Cafe...
...Francisco, the U. S. minesweeper Ortolan puffed through the Golden Gate bearing rare birds, plants, fishes, reptiles, fossils, insects collected by field workers of the California Academy of Sciences in the Revillagigedo Islands (400 mi. west of Mexican mainland in Lat. 19° N.). Dr. G. Dallao Hanna exhibited seeds of a new unnamed, unclassified fruit the size and shape of a ripe olive but sweet of pulp; related that herds of whales, chiefly mothers and their calves, sport in those waters today as they did when their numbers earned for the locality, from old-time mariners, the name...
...while he made about $1,000 a minute from such winks, nods. Then the company settled down to serious bidding. A representative of Governor Fuller of Massachusetts paid $35,000 (the highest price of the day) for a small, irridescent canvas: Vigilio: A Boat With Golden Sails, bought five other pictures for the Governor's grim home in Maiden. Little paintings that Sargent had done when he was studying ?Venetian scenes, casual landscapes, watercolors ? brought thousands of pounds; $23,000 for a diminutive canal scene, $11,000 for a picture of the Doge's palace...
Guess, and guess right if you can, what newspaper in the U. S. carries the most advertising. A paper without advertising may be an editorial success, but a paper with many pages, of advertising is a great financial success; for advertising is the golden reward of successful journalism...
From the cerulean empyrean* - a bolt. Liberty quivered, stood shaken but still unconquered, undamaged, poised on the golden dome of the Capitol...