Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: "My sister-in-law, Miss Lucy Aldrich, who was captured by bandits at Shantung, China, several weeks ago, arrived at the Golden Gate...
...very singular thing thereupon took place. The picture lived up to, indeed exceeded, the golden frame of publicity prepared...
These words were spoken by Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis to a newspaper reporter as he was being ferried over the Golden Horn to a British warship. He had just finished his last ministrations in the Greek Cathedral at Constantinople, had handed over his ecclesiastical powers to the Holy Synod, and was on his way to the great Greek Orthodox monastery of Mount Athos, in Greece. He had steadfastly resisted Turkish power in " internationalized '' Constantinople. His departure was demanded not only by the Turks, but urged by Venizelos as the only possible means of bringing agreement at the Lausanne Conference...
...Story. Kai Lung, wandering philosopher and teller of tales in the days before China was troubled by the ways of Western civilization, fell into converse-and love-in the course of his peregrinations with a pleasant willow-pattern young lady nicknamed the "Golden Mouse"-and in the very same day acquired the undying enmity of the execrable Ming-Shu, chief henchman of the Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when...
Latest and not least of Mr. Hearst's acquisitions is the autobiography of a rebellious inhabitant of " American Society's one Mount Olympus, a golden clique of Astors, Vanderbilts, Goulds and those akin to them in blue blood and vast riches." In close proximity to the teachings of James J. Corbett, Jack Dempsey, Gene Sarazen, Prudence Penny, Mrs. Clara Phillips ("hammer slayer") and Arthur Brisbane, appeared Chapter...