Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Birger's death, the Sheltons grew rich and prosperous, settled down on big farms. Bernie's was called Golden Rule Acres. Last week, Bernie got a fine funeral at Boland's mortuary in Peoria. He was laid out in a $3,000 bronze casket, got four roomfuls of flowers. But it looked as though the Sheltons were cooked. Old Earl was a nervous man; he kept looking sidewise and complained bitterly that the law was giving him no protection...
Playwright Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets, on his return to Manhattan after five years in gilded Hollywood, told readers of the New York Times why he was back: ". . . Is it still news that a Hollywood movie is usually born on the stone floor of a bank? And that this celluloid dragon, scorching to death every human fact in its path, must muscle its way back to its natal cave, its mouth full of dimes and nickels? . . . The Hollywood film exists only as the celebration of cold, canny (not so canny!) investment, with the resultant desire to make every movie as accessible...
Beau Jack, the Negro shoeshine boy from Georgia, had earned about $500,000 in the ring and kept almost none of it. Recently he blew in the last big chunk on a flashy new car, but insisted "I'll be all right." For he was the Golden Boy, who drew more cash customers into Madison Square Garden than any fighter living. He had twice won & lost the lightweight crown. No fighter had ever knocked him down for the full count...
...whose figures Henry James was later aspishly to describe as having "no more outline than a bundle of hay." But in the midst of all this intellectual mooning there was great and solid achievement; this was the New England of Emerson and Hawthorne, of Thoreau, Lowell and Longfellow-the golden age of American letters...
...There's a bright golden haze on the meadow...