Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People who think that the golden touch of their particular personality and the warmth of their sympathy would modify, to some important degree, the actions of the Soviet Government, are not only flying in the face of some of the most basic and unshakable of Russian realities. They are insulting the ideological firmness of men who have followed the sternest of doctrines since the days of their youth; followed it through extreme danger, through extreme hardship, and through the sacrifice of every other value known to human life. These men would not be grateful for the implication that they...
...Manhattan. In the city on a coast-to-coast tour, the Prince played the tourist to the hilt-hustled straight from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station to the Empire State Building for an educational gape. Manhattan gaped, too: with the Prince was a retinue of protectors hung with cartridge belts, golden swords, and jeweled daggers...
...gave life to his novels. Sentimentality is itself a confusion, a failure to discriminate in feeling; and Tarkington even at his best failed in that way. Nothing in Alice Adams is more pathetic than the author's own willingness to let the Adams family be salvaged by a golden-hearted businessman and Alice herself by gallant enrollment in a business college. One such piece of symbolism might pass, but not both...
...Golden Horseshoe brackets the harvest reaches bumper proportions. For the taxpayer with $100,000 of gross income, HRI will prove a net income boost of over twenty-five percent. The fortunate few who earn a half million every year will reap savings of more than seventy percent of current net income. The relative gain at the $500,000 level reaches almost thirty times the "relief" afforded the average laborer, even though the tax cut under the proposed bill falls from twenty percent to ten and a half percent for income in excess...
Child of Poetry. After Harriet's death, Shelley devoted himself to his poetry in Hampstead, in Leigh Hunt's cottage, where young Keats was a fellow visitor, and in Geneva, where the glamorous Lord Byron was a neighbor. The Napoleonic Wars were over; the long golden age of travel on the Continent had begun. Shelley's household abroad included not only Mary, whom he married, but her sister, Claire Claremont, one of Byron's cast-off mistresses. His scandalous behavior shocked London, and he never returned to the city after 1818, later writing stanzas beginning "Hell...