Word: golden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During my reign I hope with heavenly guidance to emulate the great Chinese Emperors of the golden Chow dynasty.* Whatever our political differences I am sure that the Manchurian Empire and America can work together for the preservation of peace...
Patrick "Tommy" Tucker is one of the survivors of that golden age and he tells a few rambling recollections in this delightful little book. It has nothing in common with the trash of Hollywood "Westerns," except that old friend, the word "hoss." Tucker's active life-time spanned the roaring decades of the old West: his life was so packed with Indian fights, shootings and hangings of horse thieves that his simple, sober account of a few of them is absolutely convincing. Running through it is the evidence of a genuine love of nature that is the opposite of sentimental...
Jane was darker than John. Four out of ten women had brunette skins as against three out of ten men. Of the men 14.3% were golden blonds; of the women 10.6%. One-fifth of the men, one-sixth of the women had blue eyes. But twice as many women as men were redheads...
...golden glories of the 1920's melted down into the lead of crime and corruption, most U. S. citizens felt that the decade had left them at least one clean heritage in which they could take national pride. Bankers might be crooks, industrialists might be common gamblers and gangsters might rule politics but nothing could rob commercial aviation of its honest achievements. In that decade the country learned to fly. Laid were the foundations of an air transport system that became the envy of every foreigner. Even Depression could not wilt this fine new flower of U. S. ingenuity...
...Questions Asked (By Anne Morrison Chapin; John Golden, producer) shows how a young patrician dipsomaniac (Ross Alexander) who boards a Staten Island ferry under the impression that it is a liner for Bermuda, achieves regeneration. On board, he prevents a young woman (Barbara Robbins), pregnant and unmarried, from tossing herself overboard. In the next scene he has married her and they are living in a penthouse with the young man's chatty but devoted mother (Spring Byington). Young Mrs. Raeburn is itching to tell her husband about her past and he is itching for the brandy bottle. Visits from...