Word: golden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge gullery, was the home of Sir Francis' "rightful heir." Delay in the inheritance's division was explained by the promoters in many ways. One story was that a British "ecclesiastical court"-sometimes a "secret court"-was holding things up, waiting for the King to put the "golden seal" on the right papers. Two decades ago, Woodrow Wilson was reported to have been driven insane by the threat of shattering international disclosures concerning the Drake Estate. Later the story was that Messrs. Hoover, Mellon and Mills, "representing the Interests," were keeping the Drake money out of the country...
...short order a jury of twelve, with two alternates, was chosen, largely because none of them had ever heard of the master of the Golden Hind. One venireman was passed over because he lived in Chicago's Drake Hotel. Defense Counsel Edward J. Hess, once an assistant U. S. attorney and an authority on postal law, set out to save those of his twoscore clients whom he could. It was soon clear that he did not hope to save them all. Passing up Hartzell and Yant, he pointed at some of the others, pleaded: "Whatever may be the truth...
...school hours Fascist moppets of both sexes scampered about collecting scrap metal for II Duce. He contributed quantities of bronze busts of himself for melting into bullets. A Royal Duke chipped in three pounds of gold. While priests collected wedding rings for the State, the Archbishop of Milan coined golden words: "God is with Italy and Italy with God! Our soldiers in Ethiopia are destroyers of the chains of slavery and assistants of the Lord...
Last year's Freshman mitmen have contributed a powerhouse of material in the persons of Arthur Rotche '38, who was undefeated in his first-year of collegiate competition, and John Duane '38 finalist in the Golden Gloves boxing matches at Chicago, sponsored by the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Richard F. Baum '37, undefeated during his Freshman year, is back again to stir things up in the 155-pound class with A. H. Corbett '37, whose injured hands last season forced him out of the running, but who now has a clean bill of health from the doctor...
...field of knowledge where his influence is not felt. Dante is a closed book without some knowledge of Aristotelianism; and many a passage of Chaucer and Shakespeare and Milton are half-meaning to us unless we know something of this famous philosopher. When we speak of "liberal education," or "golden mean" or the "theory" of a policy as contrasted with the "practice" we are using words which derive their significance from the part they play in Aristotle's philosophy. As for politics, in view of recent events in Athens, one is reminded of the philosopher's suggestion that that...