Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supreme triumph, it was what the British call in tennis a "noble effort." Whatever else can be said, it remains true that those "golden girls and lads" have been memorizing lines of immortal reputation, instead of ephemeral slang of the period; and what we memorize at twenty stays by us, as Mr. Kittredge knew when he assigned those hundreds of lines to be reproduced at midyears and finals...
Stanley J. Friedman--Anita Golden (New York...
Arthur Bell, who claims the supernatural quality of agility (i.e., of being able to transport himself anywhere in an instant by an act of his own will), was not stopped. While his attorneys appealed his conviction, he planned a bigger enterprise - Christ's Church of the Golden Rule...
Minor Difficulties. As business boomed, Promoter Bell began talking of expanding his empire. More recently, he has begun to complain that "they" are persecuting him "just as they have always perse cuted those who believed in God and the Golden Rule." California businessmen indeed have begun to glance nervously in his direction...
...tail; in the busiest first quarter in its history it netted $1,643,288 (v. last year's $1.110,083). American Airlines, likewise bragging of its heaviest traffic ever, cashed in to the tune of $980,643 (v. $597,796). For many another company, the explanation of the golden showing was entirely different. It was due less to any huge increase in volume than to the fact that most companies have stopped tucking away cash for reconversion, postwar expansion, etc.*They have already put away all they think they will need...