Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father had always talked to him about the melting pot of golden opportunity that was America. But his father was a buoyant optimist of the 1890's and early 1900's, while Vag was inclined to think of himself as a hard-boiled post-war cynic. His was a practical America, a country of depressions and recessions and bonus armies, not a haven with free land for all and riches for the picking. But occasionally Vag's cynicism was subjected to disquieting qualms. He was particularly haunted by visions of a vitriolic figure with an extremely photogenic face who hopped...
...symbol of a golden age that was, lie was at least the symbol of a golden age that had not entirely died. He had surmounted difficulties that would have been insurmountable in any other country, and pulled himself up to a position of eminence by his own boot-straps. Vag remembered that the Crimson had long ago nominated Fiorello for President in 1944--Vag thought it was a pretty good idea...
...British incomes of $8,000 yearly and over should be taken by the State-which already takes from 37½% to 80%-Sir John would reap only an additional ?60 millions. Mere chicken feed -and of a kind to poison those bourgeois pullets who lay so many golden Treasury eggs...
...minstrelsy in every man, Producer Mort Lewis (If I Had The Chance) got Cartoonist Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka} and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg as regular endmen, Actor Ezra Stone and Announcer Harry von Zell as extras, Jay C. Flippen as interlocutor. Celebrity Minstrels opened with Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, got in tune with There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, closed with Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. Sample chestnut: "Great Scott, your uncle yelled 'Down with the Irish!' at the St. Patrick's Day parade? What followed?". ... "A hearse...
...happiness. Like most busy but unoriginal literary minds he has an aptitude for quoting his superiors; Shaw, Valery and Stendhal say the best things in his book. Maurois's ability to make sentences bow from the waist, his flair for "gallic" phrasing of sincere platitudes transform the "golden mean" into gilt-edged mediocrity...