Word: golden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last-minute haste by tubby little Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. To make up his mind on one point he telephoned from Cairo, Egypt to Vichy, France where an eminent expert on protocol was taking a water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew that the Egyptian people grew accustomed, when they were subjects of Turkey, to seeing each new Sultan symbolically invested...
...celebrations were put on for Mound Bayou's golden anniversary, one by Mayor Green, the other by Mrs. Booze's husband. First was the mayor's celebration, beginning on Sunday, with six Negro preachers participating in Memorial Services for the Founders, carrying on at 12:05 a. m. that night with a breakfast dance in the Casino Ballroom over Henry Bolton's store, a speech by the eminent Negro Statesman Roscoe Conkling Simmons (familiar to all attendants at Republican National Conventions), and a showing of motion pictures of the fight of the century: Joe Louis beating...
Brazil is the second largest world export market in South America, and President Vargas has simply obtained a golden bagatelle for use in exchange operations to keep the Brazilian milreis pegged to the dollar at its present worth of about 6^. This pegging will be "within certain limits," Brazilian Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa and Secretary Hull announced at Washington, without disclosing the limits. Only as needed by Brazil will the $60,000,000 in gold be sold by the U. S. Treasury, a few millions at a clip. Although earmarked for Brazil it will not leave...
...flocked to the tremendous pageants which Princes of the Church put on there every year. In 1842 Salzburg held its first music festivals in honor of Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburg's most famous son. Later Mozart festivals were meagrely attended, poor things after the city's golden past. Hardly anybody visited Salzburg except hunters and fishers who climbed up to buy wine from monks at the Peterstift, or tourists interested in crumbling Schlosser and gay peasant clothes...
...paneled throne room of Holyroodhouse, where Bonnie Prince Charlie held court 200 years ago, flocked 500 of Scotland's socially elect to the first royal court Scotland had seen in 34 years. On guard was the Royal Company of Archers in green cloth uniforms embroidered with golden thistles. The King now in his scarlet, gold & blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards, but still with the Order of the Thistle, the Queen wearing a gold brocade gown and a diamond-&-ruby tiara * received over 200 Scottish debutantes who were thus spared the trouble of a trip...