Word: golden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yellow-robed Je Chen, Tibet's regent until Tanchu reaches his majority at 18, greeted the reincarnated pontiff with due ceremony. From a golden bowl the regent drew one of numerous bamboo slips which, if a proper choice had been made, would bear the name of the new Dalai Lama. Sure enough, it bore Tanchu's. This ritual the visiting Chinese watched contentedly. By establishing a Chinese as Dalai Lama they had, for what it was worth, underscored the influence China has long claimed over chill, far, out-of-the-world Tibet...
...Golden Boy (Adolphe Menjou, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden; TIME, Sept...
...dismissed Gil Hunt, the Washington, D. C. mathematician who sometimes uses a tennis court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn, who prefers Welby because he thinks Sidney sounds like Percy, showed an overhead game like Budge's, a forehand like Vines...
Lacking the gutty foreignness that flavored the Odets play and disguised the too-literal symbolism of its situation, Golden Boy is saved from sinking into a slow-moving dialect melodrama chiefly by the freshness of its new male star. Curly-topped, ingenuous-looking Actor Holden was picked from Paramount's roster by Director Rouben Mamoulian, who, after testing hundreds of candidates for the Golden Boy role, chanced to see Holden in a screen test for another picture. Most surprising fact uncovered by Columbia's publicity department about Actor Holden, born William Franklin Beedle Jr. 20 years...
...Francisco, Presbyterian Dr. John Hayes Creighton, onetime chaplain, announced that he had oiled his army rifle But San Francisco Mormons, Buddhists Christian Scientists, Jews, Protestants drummed up a "Peace Day," subtitled "Keep America Out of War Day," at the Golden Gate Exposition. The Chicago