Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pink carnations, maidenhair ferns, golden candlesticks, 50 empty chairs were seen in the state dining salon of the White House. Soon, and promptly, the chairs were occupied, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge had opened the official Washington social season with the annual Cabinet dinner. Among those present were Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, the Cabinet members and their wives, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, and a few favored guests from Washington, New York, Boston, such as Bruce Barton, advertising man, writer of books on the Bible and Jesus; Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg, famed zoologist; Mortimer L. Schiff, potent Manhattan...
Christie's, smartest of London auction rooms, buzzed eagerly last week, as an auctioneer rapped to announce that he would sell the 61 ½%-carat diamond "Golden Dawn," since 1913 the property of its disc verer Captain C. R. Lucas, who found it near Kimberly, South Africa...
...freedom. In this setting lived the Greek, the ideal being to whom the romanticist looked back with yearning as to something very dear which has been lost. Yet it is needless to say that this Greek was as inconsistent with the facts as was the conception of the golden land in which he lived...
...based upon reason and upon proof of the need. Our affections for this our temporary place of residence, will probably be no less than that or our predecessors, but it is going to be of a some what different nature. We shall remember our college not in the golden glow of careless youth, but with the clear memory that there the pathway of our life, for the first time, lay clear before...
...went back from Rock Creek by another trail, south of our entrance, crossed a high interstream divide, called Siberian Pass, down to Whitney Meadows at the head of Golden Trout Creek, over the crest at Cottonwood Pass, down a tributary to Cottonwood Canyon, and so to our first camp, a circuit of about 100 miles in six days. The next day, we started at 5 o'clock. Deducting the time taken or towing a disabled car from the mountain road, and for breakfast, we made the 217 miles in seven and one-half hours. This time prompts a comparison between...