Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning she achieved the purpose of her visit was warm and golden with spring sunshine. In budding Grosvenor Square, in her black dress and coat among the pastel dresses of royalty, she walked with George VI to the towering bronze statue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and pulled down the Union Jack that had veiled it. It was the third anniversary of her husband's death...
...suits, flashy ties, rimless glasses or glasses with colorless horn rims. He has a standing order that his office door remain open to all callers. He is a joiner: the American Legion, the Elks, the Masons (33rd degree and past Grand Master of California), the Native Sons of the Golden West...
Static. Koons sold the steel, at $215 a ton, to a Cleveland steel broker. It rapidly passed through two other brokers "around the grapevine" until it was bought by Louis Golden, a Detroit broker. Golden paid $300 a ton. On paper, the steel had traveled from Detroit to New York to Cleveland and back to Detroit, and $200 a ton had been added to its price. Actually it never left K-F's warehouse...
...Louis Golden finally sold it, he told the committee, for $315 to $325 a ton, to the Holland Furnace Co. of Holland, Mich., only four hours' drive from K-F's Willow Run plant. The constant selling and reselling of the same steel sometimes gets very confusing, Golden confessed. Said he: "I recall a gentleman came up to the office and asked us to come out and inspect some steel, and we needed that type, and we went out to our own warehouse and looked at our own steel...
...work of art peculiarly Victorian. "Where the fops of other ages took the butterfly as their model, he found inspiration in heavier matter. Dignity, majesty, and beautiful gloom, rather than brilliant skimming coloured parabolas, provide the keynote of his style." With his tall, elegant stoop and long golden beard, Christopher had the aspect of a late Roman emperor, and it was this aspect, apparently, that on one fateful occasion tempted the jovial prince to empty a glass of brandy on his head at dinner. Said Christopher, never batting an eye, "As Your Royal Highness pleases." The guests were convulsed...