Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fondest hope that Heaven and its Holy Trinity will always protect their peaceful homes, their grazing flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, their joyful vineyards and fields of golden grain, which are now preparing for the merry harvest season. May the happy harvest songs of their busy busy boys and honey-hearted girls soon resound from one end of Jugoslavia to the other, praising the Lord for his abundant harvest blessings...
...done?the golden sun Is sinking behind the blue, And on its way it seems to say I'm glad that my work is through. Night is drawing near, Stars will soon appear. Buildings are beginning to light up their windows. And as for me?I'm glad to be At peace with the world...
Married. Miss Grace Nash, daughter of "Golden Rule Nash," famed eccentric Cincinnati millionaire (TIME, June 29, 1925, RELIGION), to one Dr. Edwin Straehlev...
...Capps of Princeton, onetime U. S. minister to Greece, turned the first spadeful of the thousands of tons of earth that will be removed from Athens' ancient Agora, or market place, the site of many temples which, though, looted by conquerors, should still contain many art treasures of the Golden Age. The digging is entirely under the American School of Classical Studies at Athens*; after 30 years or so of labor, the Agora will be given back to Greece, stripped of its 35 feet of debris, for a public park. Dr. Capps also formally opened the Gennadium, a new marble...
...where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There is bloodletting for the sake of seeing an ivory floor incarnadined. The palace is yellow; the guards wear scarlet; Santa Barbarian males are tall, red-golden of hue and often go nearly naked. There are some 400 pages of highly involved events, followed by much sacking and a fierce conflagration, and the hero sails away having accomplished nothing more than the reader's unmitigated excitement. Author Masefield, famed and beloved as the poet of Dauber, Reynard...