Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record will not be written in golden characters on the tablets of Time. Although Senator Robinson is a democrat, his statement that "no important legislative achievement except bills of a non-partisan nature and except the Fordney-McCumber tariff act can be awarded the Sixty-seventh Congress" is no exaggeration. The passage of the Fordney tariff was not greeted with a universally joyous acclaim. Certain pledges made by Republicans for the creation of a soldiers' bonus have been repudiated along with President Harding's mellifluent promise of an association of nations. The settlement of the British Debt problem, although...
...Paddock" is amusing, also; and the sketches of "people we know" have the ring of familiarity and homely truth in them. But it is somewhat startling to find in the Lampoon (even thus disguised) a belated-fling at William Randolph Hearst. Himself, who has always been regarded as the Golden Calf, as it were, of the Lampoon's temple on Mr. Auburn Street...
Most of us have little idea of the extent to which we depend on the past for our opinions. Look over a book like Fraser's abridged edition of "The Golden Rough" and you will be surprised at the number of customs that have come down from the Stone Age. The past may be right and we cannot challenge all its heritage...
...every year forever" to "provide one or more courses of lectures of the highest character on literary and scientific subjects". It was an agreement which was not only creditable to the City of Cambridge, but singularly consistent with the thrifty foresight of Mr. Dowse. This foundation, established in the Golden Age of lyceum lectures, at once attracted the most brilliant and notable of speakers. The names of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumher, Edward Everett, and many other personalities of that period, appear in the early lists. Professor Kittredge is a worthy successor...
...complete list of the cast and chorus is as follows: Aqua Fortis, Only Son of the King C. C. Carpenter '24 Sweeney, the King's stenographer Kellogg Gary '24 King Mud, King of the Golden River, Curtis Nelson '24 Andrew Carlton '16, Harvard Quarterback, G. A. Weist '24 Mary Stevens Blair, of 399 Fenway, Back Bay 3770-W, C. H. Morgan 2nd '24 Enobarbus, Who took Military Science with Antony, J. J. Collier '23 Mardian, Cleopatra's Enrico Caruso, W. E. Collins Jr. '24 Chairman, Both confidante and confident, Paul Mendoza Jr. '23 Iris, A valuable piece of brass...