Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since its completion in 1937, the graceful, red-towered Golden Gate Bridge has borne a grisly charm for Californians bent on sure self-destruction. At first, they could also be sure of headlines as well as death. But by the time the score had reached 46 lives, San Francisco dailies gave them no more than routine paragraphs...
...find fault with their setting of the problems of education. I personally do not like their emphasis upon "tradition." If one chooses to be etymological and to cover by "tradition" whatever has been handed down from earlier ages, good. But I like to distinguish between the Golden Rule and Euclid on the one hand and such items as Cabinet responsibility on the other. The first two are discoveries of something of absolute and universal value. The last is a device belated in its formulation and likely to cumber the earth long after it has ceased to be useful...
...ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium (Brindisi). The largest ship carried vast purple sails; its prow bore a golden lion's head. Lounging in a tent beneath the ornamented rigging was Augustus Octavian Caesar, Emperor of Italy, Gaul and the lands of the Nile. Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing 'blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid...
...Lady Sybil Eden, 78, mother of Anthony; in Windlestone, England. Of her son's ups-& -downs as British Foreign Secretary, she once remarked: "I often feel like bubbling over with pride, and at times like bursting into tears." Died. Amelie Rives (Princess Trou-betzkoy), 81, who, as a golden-haired Southern beauty in her twenties, scandal ized readers in the '80s and '90s with her popular novel, The Quick or the Dead; after long illness; in Charlottesville...
...Golden World. Soon Q "set out a quire of virgin folio paper" and, under the influence of Robert Louis Stevenson, wrote his first adventure story (Dead Man's Rock). He also "asked the lady of my affection to be my wife. We had halted . . . beside a low wall coped by a quantity of wild thyme, on a tuft of which I rested a hand as I spoke and waited for her answer. To this day, halting before a tuft of the plant I press it and it recalls that answer in its fragrance." In "the general security of life...