Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seated upon a golden dais, surrounded by brilliantly uniformed troops, uniformed Cabinet Ministers, representatives from every part of the Commonwealth, Privy Councillors, high ecclesiastics, Ambassadors and Ministers, Their Majesties listened to the Duke of York's speech in which, as Chairman, he asked the King to open the second Wembley Exhibition...
...Golden Sky (Feitelson) shows the influence of Giotto. Nude figures dream in a coppice, while the sun, drowning in the gulfs of the West, floods them with moted yellow light, tarnishing the trees with gold, melting to rose the ivory of their bodies...
...have a more than even chance of partial success. Nevertheless, most people now . . . sincerely wish that they had not talked so much about the blessings of hurrying back to par. It is in this chastened mood that the British public will submit their necks once more to the golden yoke-as a prelude, perhaps, to throwing it off forever at not a distant date...
...says Arthur Machen. Among them were: utilitarian literature, big business, the novels of George Eliot and Airs. Humphry Ward, Puritanism and its offspring, Protestantism; the inky rivers of the city of Manchester, drains, dogmas and all the iron altars erected to that latter day simulacrum of the Golden Bull of Tyre-the Industrial Ham. As Dickens' behavior toward Dissent was once described as that of a man who takes up a noisome fungus, smells it, makes an inarticulate noise of disgust and throws it away, so Arthur Machen treated the toadstools which, in 1906, he did not love. "Everything...
...planned, Editor McClure recalled his golden days. He remembered how, at the beginning of the Century, he had gone abroad, obtained introductions to two young English men of letters, come home and published, before other U. S. magazines, the works of Rudyard Kipling and James M. Barrie. He remembered the spectacular series of articles he had asked Miss Ida M. Tarbell to write, on all the unpleasant things there were to be known about John D. Rockefeller and the Oil Trust. That series, in 1903, had put McClure's at the head of the monthly field...