Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Pickford, 55, and the Gish sisters, Dorothy, 51, and Lillian, 52, posed together at a Manhattan restaurant, looking not at all as if some 40 years had passed since they first brought girlish graces and golden curls to the early U.S. screen. Even Mary's dialogue sounded familiar: "We girls get together as often as we can. We belong to each other, in the never-never land and into tomorrow...
Long about ten years ago, Hollywood historians dug into the exploits of the notorious James boys (of St. Joe, not Cambridge) and found enough material for two full-length movies. The mother lode has run out, though, and the golden moments in "I Shot Jesse James" are not worth anywhere near the 85 cents it costs to assay them...
After isolating 3,400 strains from 600 samples of soil, Dr. Duggar found one in 1945 that looked promising. Because it was a golden yellow color, it was called aureomycin. More than two years of careful testing in the laboratory followed. About a year ago, aureomycin was first used to treat human beings. Results were good. By last week aureomycin had taken its place as a standard medicine...
...lectern. She did not, as some had predicted, arrive on broomstick, astride a lion, or floating on a stream of gurgling honey. She was clad in her poetical uniform (as publicized in Life): a long, green dress, heavy coils of silver around her wrists, and a floor-sweeping, golden cloak with slits for her hands, which clutched her two books, and a large, black, and jarringly prosaic leather handbag...
...church mouse and still, at 35, such "innocent gaum" (dumbbell) that when he gets a check for one of his first plays he doesn't know how to go about cashing it. But he is sustained by wonderful dreams and illusions in which he sees Ireland peopled by "golden boys" who wander through lanes "canopied by the sly innocence of the woodbine's dangling stems," while adoring lasses stroke "the faded, maybe bloodstained, cloth" of heir uniforms with "shy, white fingers." He dreams of poets who move through life like gods, never erring, never sinking into sordid realms...