Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he supported the bill of his colleague, Mr. Underwood. Then, with a gesture of his great arm, he opened the floodgates of his eloquence. All the dammed up speech of ten silent days burst forth, inundated the chamber. For two hours it flowed over the spillway of his golden tongue; when it ceased, his hearers shook their heads: "Ah, yes, there's nothing the matter with the Senate after...
...Golden Rule Not Rule Of Thumb...
...purpose of a teacher to prevent his pupil from thought on the subject he teaches," Dr. Crothers went on. "I agree with Mr. Martin that the sayings of Jesus do not solve modern problems of ethics. The acceptance of the Golden Rule does not enable one to master the intricacies of political economy; but the same can be said of the maxims of law or medicine. The general principle does not take the place of specialized knowledge...
...music. He attracted attention when his one-act opera Le Villi was successfully performed at La Scala, Milan. His next work, Edgar, was a failure; but he won note with Manon Lescaut, and international fame with La Bohème. Tosca and Madame Butterfly followed. The Girl of the Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short operas Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, given their première at the Metropolitan six years ago. These latter failures could detract little...
...Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay published a book entitled The Golden Whales of California and Other Poems. Thereafter, many sport writers adopted Poet Lindsay's picturesque phrase, applying it to football teams of California University as a cognomen thought to be appropriate in view of the prowess of those teams. TIME thanks Subscriber Mott for recalling the official epithet...