Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Distinguished gentlemen, dan gling golden keys from their watch-chains, made pilgrimage into his toric Virginia, to listen at Williamsburg to the mellow accents of Dr. Henry van Dyke, Princeton poet-patriarch; to hear a sweet-voweled memorial poem by Dr. John Erskine of Columbia (author, The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Galahad) ; to attend the prophetic utterance of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary...
Kate Nesbitt, like a hard wall beneath gracious ivies, considers her best-loved daughter as good as dead. Sister Mabel's agate eyes gleam with righteousness and curiosity. Sister Janet is a golden haired prig, until love storms her own maiden ramparts...
This, we followed up some miles, riding over successive roches moutonnees to one of the upper likes, where we found an excellent base camp, with wood, water, and good feed for the stock, and my companions quickly got out their fishing gear and started for the golden trout...
This pseudo-technical description may joyfully pass to the fishing for which the Whitney region is famous. Every stream and lake on both sides of Whitney, Langley, etc., has a species, or variety, of trout known as "golden trout." I have seen the trout and eaten them, but, being no fisherman, can only repeat what others say and thus escape approbrium, namely that they are found nowhere in the Sierras except in this limited locality and that attempts to transplant the spawn to other places do not produce the same fish. Again experts tell me they are simply rainbow trout...
...unity and effective emphasis to the plot action. Therefore, till the second half of the last act, the play dawdles along without seizing upon the audience's imagination or sympathy. The Emperor Jones. Eugene O'Neill's play about a Negro whom terror drives from a golden, stolen throne into a ghost-jungle, is being acted again by Charles Gilpin. Theatregoers remember that, after the first season, Actor Gilpin's work was authoritatively acclaimed the finest acting of the year. Evidently the part has palled upon him, for his present work rings hollow, artificial...