Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Obregon received Mr. Warren to the strains of The Star Spangled Banner. The American walked up the diplomatic stairway beneath archos of flowers to the golden reception room. In an interview with the President the Ambassador declared, under instructions from President Coolidge: "The relations we desire with this republic do not infringe in any way upon its nationality. Nations arise from deep causes that well up in individuals possessing common spiritual qualities and ideals. Your people possess theirs and we possess ours." He disclaimed any intention of aggrandizement on the part of the U. S., or a desire...
...Golden Gate is well on the way to the possession of a Diamond Horseshoe. The San Francisco Opera Association is rapidly raising $125,000 by calling upon generous westerners to become "Founders," at the price of $50 per head. Already 1,807 of the necessary 2,500 fees have been collected, and there is general jubilation. Maestro Gaetano Merola has been appointed producing director of the Association, and has already announced his program...
...cardinal's hat is suspended by golden wires over the high altar in his cathedral. There it remains till it accompanies his body to the tomb...
...status of civilization with honeyed words of praise and glorification. The book is divided in two parts. The first part consists of five warnings to mankind: 1) that the advanced races; of mankind are going backwards; 2) that heredity is the chief maker of men; 3) that the Golden Rule without Science will wreck the race that tries it; 4) that Medicine, Hygiene and Sanitation will weaken the human race; 5) that Morals, Education, Art and Religion will not improve the race. The second part gives the Ten Commandments of Science or the duties of man to bring about reconstruction...
...Seylla of graduate and undergraduate hopes of victory and the Charybdis of ever-ready denunciation on the score of "over-emphasis" requires a master hand. Surpassing even the crafty Ulysses, Dean Briggs has made sacrifices neither to the one nor to the other. It is true that the golden age of the Haughton regime made the football seasons more than satisfactory to the students and alumni--but in other sports there was no overwhelming superiority to lull would-be dissenters into "innocuous desuetude". Having a clear idea, however, of the place which athletics ought to occupy in college, or more...