Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Samarkand the Golden, once capital of half the conquered world, and seat of Tamburlaine news came last week of things deep stirring in the heart of Asia. Bleak Soviets rule today, instead of Tamburlaine, but even so the men of Samarkand still sip iced honey as of old, still deal in that exquisite lambskin, caracul, worth sometimes ?500 ($2430) a hide and still transship eight hundred million pounds of Chinese tea each year to Russia. The men of Samarkand were occupied last week in quite the good old way. The women were causing trouble...
...report that Gypsy Smith, "the father of all evangel ists," was on the way from Co lumbia, Ga., to Chicago, "on the last legs of a globe-girdling tour during which he has converted more than 100,000 men and wo men." He will open the three-day golden jubilee of his conversion with a mass meeting at the staid First Congregational Church in Oak Park, Ill., where the Rev. William E. Barton, father of advertising man Bruce Barton, had long been pastor. Gypsy Smith has a son, Gypsy Jr., who is also saving souls...
...West will be visited. The date announced, for the Cantabridgian invasion is April 23, but it is expected that when First National hears that at this time its prospective stars will be at home enjoying the exploits of present celebrities of the screen world, the date of Harvard's golden opportunity will be advanced...
...time." He is Frederick Delius, onetime Florida orange-planter, onetime music teacher in Danville, Va. He wrote "Sea Drift" to Walt Whitman's words. He wrote "Mass of Life" and "Appalachia." Later he set Poet James Elroy Flecker's Hassan to music and the splendors of "The Golden Road to Samarkand" filled the Haymarket Theatre for months on end. Sometimes he hears great orchestras playing his music-over the radio. Mostly he lies lonely, stricken, and what is worse, neglected...
...Reno's go-getters did it. Until it was all over the Neyada legislature did not realize that they had reduced the time of necessary in Nevada for prospective divorcees from six to three months. Again American pluck and daring has set the golden West several jumps ahead of the backward Latins of France and Mexico...