Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shown in many a U.S. tank town, and in India and China. But, because of the tight grip of M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount and Warner Brothers and their theater chains on Manhattan's first run houses, it has yet to appear on Broadway. thus parting the golden circle. But the final breakthrough will depend on the independents themselves...
...mother of six and grandmother of 15, was honored on her 50th year of marriage to Composer Sidney Homer at an "Evening of Music" given by Florida's Rollins College, where Mme. Homer will teach recipients of a new scholarship fund dedicated to her as a golden-wedding gift...
...golden rooms were the firelit caves of men in the vast darkness of prehistoric night. When Harg discovered that by rubbing two sticks together he could make fire, he rose to his feet, trembling, and slipped away into the dusk. He thought: "You are the only one in the world who can make fire...
First War. The Golden Rooms is the second volume of Vardis Fisher's imaginative reconstruction of primitive human life. First: Darkness and the Deep. The work of an Idaho-born realist whose straightforward, unadorned stories of Mormon farm life were too bitter for many readers, The Golden Rooms is so different from his earlier books (Toilers of the Hills, In Tragic Life) that it might be the work of a different writer. They were heavily written, with occasional inspired passages. The Golden Rooms is simple, skillful, steadily interesting...
...fire also proved his undoing. The fleet, supple, Cro-Magnons-6 ft. tall, weighing 250 Ibs., hunting with arrows and lances, wearing clothing to protect them in winter and painting pictures on their cave walls-grew vexed when they saw Harg's imitation of their golden rooms. "For the first time in the history of the human race on this planet, men were ready to go to war." The Cro-Magnons wiped out Harg's people, one by one, with bow and arrow, usually without a fight...