Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embraced industrial success as the standard of achievement. But the hollowness of a philosophy of life, which leads to nothing more substantial than mere progress, is already being felt with a poignancy, which even the Nirvana of Coolidgism has failed to allay. And in tracing the fading of the golden day into the gilded dusk, Lewis Mumford is voicing a discontent with the present idols, to which the pens of such widely different types of writers as Professor Babbitt, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis have previously given form. Few critics however, have seen so penetratingly beneath the surface...
...holes, Jones found himself possessed of still another title. To his U. S. Open and British Open titles, he had added that of his native Dixieland. Professionals Johnny Farrell, Quaker Ridge, N. Y., and John Golden, Patterson, N. J., were tied for second place, eight strokes behind the winder's 281. In an especially arranged playoff two days later, Golden defeated Fanell 70-71, took the first cash award...
...Golden Gate Park Zoo, San Francisco, one Percy Hayes, 17, visitor from Stockton, Calif., ignored the warning signs on the cinnamon bear cage and poked his face up to the bars better to watch the beasts eat the lump sugar that he was tossing them. One bear nabbed the boy and inquisitively pawed his face. Two dirty claws pierced his eyes...
...Riviera, Author Stern relates with considerable finesse certain events that took place there in March, a fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish rake, who had often enough growled that Rennie had "neither chic nor chien" and who despised the chows as stupid foreigners, bristled at the news, but not in anger...
Notre Dame University reminded the casual world that it is not purely a football club. It awarded its Laetare Medal, designed after the Golden Rose given by Popes to European churchmen and intended to be one of the highest honors a Catholic-American can receive for distinction in arts or science, to Actress Margaret Anglin, sister of the Chief , Justice of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Francis Anglin. Other women had been so honored before: Eliza Allen Starr for art criticism; Agnes Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry. Actress Anglin's distinction...