Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Postle Golden Age Possible...
...wrangling spread. Enlistments in the Guard dropped to zero. For six weeks Guardsmen went unpaid. Morale dwindled. At half strength, Guards did double duty. The situation was desperate, said a Guard colonel, "particularly in regard to the San Francisco waterfront and the Golden Gate Bridge...
...numbers which correspondents computed by hundreds, the R.A.F. swept by day and swatted by night. Italy's faraway golden triangle - Turin, Milan, Genoa-was bombed nonstop from England. Augsburg in Bavaria, another distant target, was bombed daringly by day. The Ruhr got it two nights. Hamburg was pasted. But the real noise and numbers were the daylight sweeps along the French coast and the invasion ports-Lorient, Le Havre, St. Nazaire, Cherbourg, Dunkirk, Calais, Rouen, carried out mainly by Spitfire-protected Hurricanes, converted to carry light bombs and nicknamed Hurribombers. One day more than 400 planes went over...
...hold the picture together, but every scene, from Roxie, the press, and the law doing the black bottom in the city jail to the broadcasting of the trial over a nation-wide network, is a masterpiece in itself. With Adolf Menjou turning in some of his best acting since "Golden Boy," and Ginger Rogers playing her part as though she had never been anyone else, "Roxie Hart" is as healthy and heart-warming a bit of self-ridicule as has been seen in a long time...
...songwriter had as yet pulled as fast a one as John Golden did in World War I. His Fall In Line For Your Motherland (1916) had "lyrics by Woodrow Wilson." Ingenious John Golden had picked phrases from President Wilson's speeches, welded them into twelve stanzas, had then got the President's permission to put his name on the cover...