Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the New President. Abruptly, the scene shifts from the Golden Gate to the hills of Vermont. Reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock at the door of a white farmhouse in the little hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit, dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office taken at dawn and the next chapter is inaugurated...
Then California proceeded to loose her champion Golden Whales, and win 7 to 0. Meantime, Oregon overcame Washington...
...Times are not what they used to be," said the venerable Hammurabi about 1900 B. C. And the older generation has kept on saying it to the present day. But more than ordinary truth is contained in their charge that the golden age when children were seen and not heard is past. On every side Young Precocious rises up to stand upon his rights. Strangely pertinent now is the outburst of Shakespeare against the children actors of his time that "these are now the fashion, and so be-rattle the common stages . . . that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose...
...golden horseshoe" is so called because its 35 boxes?the lower row, known as the parterre?are roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, the stage being in the heel. A gala night at the opera concentrates about as much wealth in this broken ellipse as in any other given spot on the earth's surface...
Other Big Ten games were less important. In the South, Georgia smashed Vanderbilt 3 to 0, smashed also Vanderbilt's All-American end, Bomar. On the Pacific coast, the champion Golden Whales of California State wallowed and spouted, swamped Washington State 20 to 7 without a fluke. Oregon was 40 to Whitman's 6. Southern California, strongest title-seeker, was 21 to Nevada...