Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe," remarks Propter, "that, if you want the golden fleece, it's more sensible to go to the place where it exists than to rush round performing prodigies of valour in a country where all the fleeces happen to be coal-black...
...years Evangelist Frank Clarry preached & practiced the Golden Rule. Often had he read aloud from Corinthians I (Chapter XIII, verse 1): "Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity. . . ." Often his daughter Dorothy heard him. She became an evangelist, too. Last month, aged 75, when crossing a Manhattan street against a red light, Frank Clarry was killed by Negro Motorist Moe Crawford. Moe was charged with homicide, clapped into the Tombs. Dorothy Clarry got the charge dismissed. Said she: "The poor fellow wasn't to blame." She visited his wife and four children...
...Supreme Order of Santissima Annunziata upon Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State. This decoration, which makes its owner an honorary "cousin of the King," has long been held by Pius XII. Next, the Holy Father gave Foreign Minister Count Ciano a moderately good decoration, the Order of the Golden Spur. The Vatican whispered that this week Il Duce is to pay a formal call on Il Papa (although the Pa lazzo Venezia was not so sure), and that this spring the Pope will again break precedent by making a tour of Italy's cathedrals...
...everything else, men must apprentice themselves to their trade. Minus a working knowledge of the golden rules the highest gallantry is too often unavailing." So reads the preface of a soldier's handbook, Battle Training in Word and Picture (George Newnes Ltd.; 6d.), recently published in London with a War Office blessing and foreword by Viscount Gort, Chief of the British Field Forces...
Shortly before Recorder Mapleson died, in 1937, a deaf but diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam got permission to go through the Mapleson records. There, Collector Seltsam found not only peeping vocal relics of such golden-agers as Emma Eames, Johanna Gadski, Marcella Sembrich, but 16 records of the otherwise unrecorded* Jean de Reszke. Thrilled Phonographer Seltsam started raising money to re-record Mapleson's de Reszke samples on modern discs...