Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warriors who thought that man's place was in the home. She marries shy, sissified Sapiens, son of Pomposia, who has a corner on the spear and arrow market, in order to get the necessary armaments to ward off an attacking Greek army. As long as Hippolyta wears her golden girdle, the women will rule. So the Greeks send Hercules to challenge the Queen in combat and get that girdle. Hoppolyta gives it to Antiope, the mighty huntress, who loses it to Theseus, the handsome Greek warrior, while learning how a man makes love. Sapiens, let loose in the Greek...
Meanwhile the inscrutable foe sat in the golden seat. The offensive was still in his hand. He gave a fine exhibition of hiding it by much ado over a wide area. His planes roared as far east as the new U.S. base on New Caledonia, were routed by fighters. His bombers whammed alternately at Port Moresby and north Australian ports. U.S. and Australian pilots whacked right back, destroying the Jap's planes wholesale, as many as 30 at one clip...
...reader may thus trace from start to semi-finish a concentrated history of thumbnail memoranda on such subjects as God, boredom, marriage, work, Government, lawyers, shoals of others. He may learn the Golden Rule not only from the New Testament but from Confucius, Isocrates, Tobit, the Mahabharata, Hillel Ha-Babli; such shy self-revelations as the U.S. proverb: "Do others or they will do you," or Bernard Shaw's "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." The reader can observe that, whereas there is much...
Manhattan concertgoers who have looked back with twinges of regret to the golden years from 1926 to 1936, when Arturo Toscanini was the fabulous war lord of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, had no apprehensions. Sold out, the orchestra office had to return $25,000 in checks to applicants who wanted seats for the two-week postseason Beethoven festival at Carnegie Hall with wiry, white-haloed Maestro Toscanini conducting...
...protest against an important foreign policy, to see our country finally on the right path," Brinnin stated. "Now that the meusce has been recognized by all poets are changing their tone in an effort to indicate new roads to be followed, and it is possible that a new golden age of poetry is in sight...