Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sufficient to build a tradition, and HDC's real claim to fame comes from its unusual selection of plays. Always the first United States showing, the annual productions have occasionally been world premiers as well. Bernard Shaw's next piece on the slate, "In Good King Charles' Golden Days," has been given in England only once before...
...father, British Ambassador Lord Halifax, who lost one of his three sons (Peter, 26) at El Alamein last November, was British Army Lieut. Richard Wood, 22. He quietly recounted how the bomb that took both his legs failed to explode, left him his life. For nine years the Golden Rule Foundation, whose funds go to "mothers . . . orphans . . . innocent victims of war" and whose donation blanks are headed "In Honor of My Mother," has winnowed an assortment of honorary Mothers (TIME, May 3). Last week its aplomb was jiggled by Mrs. Henry P. Davison, 72, widow of a Morgan partner...
...growing wider. In the boom years Mrs. Wolfe speculated in real estate. Tom wished her success, but warned her against losing "the capacity for enjoyment. . . ." In the strange mixture of bad, sincere, flamboyant prose that ran through all his writing, he spoke his unhappy mind: "The golden years of my life are slipping by on stealthy feet at nightfall; there is a footprint in the dark, a bell strikes 12, and the flying year has gone. . . . The great play is yet unwritten; the great novel beats with futile hands against the portals of my brain. Proud fool! . . . Shall my dust...
Pure money movements (as distinguished from gold and currency moving to pay for goods) can be stopped by simple decree by a strong central bank. But so long as the underlying causes remain, all the fiscal curbs in the world will not stop Argentina's incoming golden flow...
...hundreds of pounds of strategic zinc oxide and glycerine, but they hoarded enough for the season, too. There is a real shortage of silk tights and stockings-but a barelegged circus girl does no lasting damage at the box office. One glamor-girl act is especially well fixed: golden girl Betty Nitsch and her elephant rely upon a metal of which the U.S. has plenty...