Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elwood went back to normal, it was plain that what politicians and writers thought of the speech meant less than what was thought of it in the homeward-bound cars that were fanning out over the highways. The talk that counted was the talk that went on behind the golden headlights that danced over the white pavements - the talk of the crowd, of people who were a long way from Washington, a long way from editorial offices, the crowd that rose to a challenge, the crowd that had never heard of the decline of western civilization and would...
...call wild rice Mah-No-Men. They say it reverently, for wild rice is their cash crop, their "great gift from the Spirit of Heaven." August is the moon of its ripening, the month when the grain turns yellow and the lakes where the wild rice grows look like golden plains. After the ripening comes the moon of the harvest, when the Chippewas gather the rice just as they did when the exploring Franciscan, Father Louis Hennepin, first saw them...
...born in battle. The strong, proud people who in the Fifth Century B.C. routed the armies and navies of Darius and Xerxes at Marathon and Salamis created in the world a new kind of government while their strength and pride in victory were fresh and powerful. Athens of the Golden Age was an imperialism as well as a democracy, the first empire in history administered by a sovereign people. Its fleet ruled the Aegean and word of government by the people spread through the Mediterranean world as far as the mouth of the Rhone...
Last week, at San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition, Dr. Walter Heil, head of the Fair's European and U. S. exhibitions, heard from one of his subalterns that the Navy was growling about the latest of Cadmus' naval cartoons, which hung, with other Cadmus paintings, in the Treasure Island treasury of U. S. art. Entitled Sailors and Floozies, it showed two sailors and a U. S. marine gleefully enduring the blandishments of three substantial-looking wenches. Dr. Heil took the picture down. Said he: "There's too much smell about...
...Essen, to the 70th birthday celebration of Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, went Adolf Hitler himself, to congratulate the head of Germany's greatest munitions plant, award him a golden badge of honor...