Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emerald bird in a golden cage set with pearls, on a jade base...
...where felt-booted citizens who tired of street dancing in the light November slush could buy (at fantastic prices) champagne, vodka, soda pop, bread and sausage. Truck-borne roving players mimed and capered on eleven bunting-draped stages in public squares. Fifty-three bands washed the Kremlin's golden domes with music. For three days factory wheels were still, and bureaucrats mercifully stopped pushing their pens. And on the fourth day, hungover citizens, still-as always-faintly hungry, went back to work...
...GOLDEN MULTITUDES (357 pp.)-Frank Luther Moft-Macmillan...
...Golden Multitudes is a history of American pipe dreams : a record of nearly three centuries of U.S. bestsellers. It is doubtful if there has ever been assembled any where such a comprehensive list of such complete irrationality, so many ridiculous scenes and characters, so much solemn nonsense and so much moralizing, posturing and ham acting, as in Frank Luther Mott's account of the books which the U.S. public has purchased by the millions...
...remember their "good old golden rule days" as either golden or good; but almost all seem to love to tell about them. In an anthology out last week, two longtime schoolmasters-ex-Headmaster Claude M. Fuess and Teacher Emory S. Basford of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.-have made a scrapbook collection of the tales some 100 famous men have told, over the ages, out of school...