Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days the Voice, harsh, flat and earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial. It did not stop until Nov. 5. There, according to convention, it should have stopped for good, since a majority of the voters voted for a golden voice instead. But the election, far from striking the Voice dumb, gave it new inspiration...
Soon Senate attendants will remove the little engraved golden plate from his second-row mahogany desk, on the aisle. Off the blue-baize-covered table of the Foreign Relations Committee room will come the little golden plate, stamped with his name. In the leather chair where he presided, where he wrestled out foreign problems with the late William E. Borah, will sit a new chairman-almost certain to be Walter F. George, of Vienna...
...centre span (2,800 ft.) is the third longest in the world. Longer: George Washington (3,500) across the Hudson at Manhattan, Golden Gate (4,200) at San Francisco...
Having lost his race for U. S. Senator from New Jersey, James Henry Roberts ("Golden Boy") Cromwell seemed to have lost his rich wife too. Day before election, Doris Duke Cromwell, whom he said he last saw at his birthday party in June, flew off en route to Honolulu. At Los Angeles she confirmed news of the separation, commented on Jimmy's election defeat: "It's a great pity, for he worked so hard...
...design and freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...