Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instruct the authors when to be submissive, when to grapple. Producers have welcomed him to their entertainments, and they have put him out of them. Asked by a pupil where to take a play treating of the rougher seximpulses, Mr. Eaton is equipped to say, "Anywhere but to John Golden." He is aware of the predelictions, peccadilloes and policies of all the showmen from Mr. Belasce to Mishkin and Mindal, and his counsel would therefore be of much value in bringing Harvard closer to Broadway...
...worth the incredible sum of $6,000 a week to them. They formed their own company. Famed were its members: Peter F. Daily, "the quickest-witted man who ever wore grease-paint", who drank a quart of champagne and a quart of whiskey every evening in his dressing room; golden Lillian Russell who "broke 1,000 hearts a night" when she sang Rosie, you are my Posie; David Warfield, William Collier, Fay Templeton, De Wolf Hopper, Bessie McCoy, Frankie Bailey, Sam Bernard...
...will have to choose between two principles of education; modern vocationalism or old-fashioned humanism. She cannot straddle both policies if she is to stand upright in character and individuality. Of course there is always the possibility of choosing the middle path; those who cherish a love for the golden mean will arise and proclaim its virtues vociferously...
...golden ante-bellum chronicle of the G. O. P. there is one entry that will always be read with bitterness; the last minute defeat of Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. To those who watched President Wilson's actions with pale hostility the satisfaction always remained of believing that with Hughes as President matters would have been otherwise. There was no little rejoicing, therefore, when he was placed in the second highest office of the land by a new Republican administration. Great things were expected...
...Berkeley, the Golden Bears of the University of California basked in balmy sunshine, padded out upon their velvety gridiron, watched eleven red-and-blue-bellied men of Pennsylvania assume positions opposite. The Bears gave greeting, sprawled and stretched genially...