Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lift my lamp beside the golden door...
...welcome must of Ellis Island. Not even the selfish arguments for walking out Europe's outcasts bold good. In a world of destruction and despair the United States since its founding has been humanity's Shangri-la. There is still no valid cause for bolting shut its golden gate...
...Inaugural Gala, an omnium-gatherum of music and anti-Fascist vaudeville last Sunday night in Washington's Constitution Hall. That hall, owned by the D. A. R., two years ago was forbidden to Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. Last week the D. A. R. moodily approved the Golden Gate Quartet...
...means so wild, vocally and harmonically, as Mitchell's Christian Singers (an earlier Hammond find), the Golden Gate foursome have one trick all their own. In story-songs-which their best ones are-the narrator is Willie Johnson, who always wanted to be a preacher. When the time comes for Baritone Johnson to narrate, the quartet rhythmically deploys, slapping and tapping the while, closes ranks after he steps up to the microphone. Besides their manual and pedal percussion effects, the Golden Gate Quartet beat out the rhythm by precisely controlling the intake and outgo of their breaths. Their most...
Last week Ma Greene-now silver-haired, plump and 72-knew that she had pointed the Greene Line's prow in the right direction. Packets and towboats pushing long lines of barges were carrying more traffic (chiefly coal, oil, steel) over the Ohio than in the golden river days made famous by Mark Twain. There was less romance but more business (19,680,176 tons in the first nine months of 1940). The Greene Line got its share. No longer active as a pilot, Ma Greene now serves as symbol and occasional hostess for the line, lets...