Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tribune's "Golden Era," before the Colonel got at the news columns, it produced its only Pulitzer Prizewinner, beloved Cartoonist John T. McCutcheon. But Cartoonist McCutcheon, a sweet-tempered man who could not adapt his pen to McCormick manias, has been pushed aside by Cartoonist Carey Cassius Orr, who is not inhibited by McCormick...
...another Golden Era of sport is to follow World War II, as it did World War I, the Paavo Nurmi of tomorrow may well be raven-haired Leslie MacMitchell, who developed his legs running up & down the subway stairs of his native Manhattan...
...days when Japanese, in their first enthusiastic adherence to the Axis, made no secret of their indifference to U.S. opinion, of their reliance on power alone. But when the Clipper came down in San Francisco, after slipping in through the huge ring of defenses that guard the Golden Gate, Saburo Kurusu made his first U.S. statement, hopefully. Said he: "The people of Japan and the United States should take peace for granted. . . . I fully realize the difficulty of my task, but, making a tight scrum, I wish I could break through the line and make a touchdown."(A fellow Japanese...
Theatre (adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel by Guy Bolton & Mr. Maugham; produced by John Golden) is a half-brittle, half-gooey tale of a glittering English stage couple who seem to the public like Darby & Joan, behave in private more like Don Juan and Jezebel. The first half-in Maugham's typical drawing-room style-is a faintly nasty account of their infidelities, so carefully underlined that for a while it looks as if Theatre will be all smirk and no play. When the well of adultery runs dry, the authors rush with their buckets...
...which taste like a cross between Minneapolis grain whiskey and Swedish aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...