Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the gauze of London's blue-grey November mist, the Portland stone buildings of Whitehall, the delicate tracery of trees in Parliament Square, the twin towers of Westminster Abbey all melted together to form a silver backdrop. Fresh sand strewn along the procession route made a golden carpet...
...golden," TIME, just plated...
...also made a lot of people indignant and unhappy; it made the Rev. A. Powell Davies, Unitarian pastor of a fashionable Washington church (TIME, Oct. 7), as angry as Moses denouncing the golden calf's idolaters. Brandishing a clipping from his pulpit last Sunday, the Rev. Mr. Davies thundered...
...worth a good deal more. It reproduces the soft, small tones that give depth and texture to music with a clarity and realism that are startling to owners of average instruments. It is, in fact, perhaps the only set on the market that would completely satisfy a golden ear."* The FORTUNE survey passed over lower-priced, lower frequency sets like Crosley, Philco and RCA-Victor, discussed chiefly such visually satisfying high-priced machines ($495 and up) as Scott (with its "impressive assortment of tubes, wires and gadgets on a chromium-plated base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them...
What Every Woman Knows proves a decided contrast to Henry. Barrie's rather faded comedy of the great hidden role wives play in their husbands' careers remains a sort of unfading matinee attraction. It is cleverly "human" without being even slightly real. Its little golden nugget of truth is heavily coated with all the familiar Barrie chemicals-romantic fancy, sentimental charm, playful humor, terrifying coyness and thick Scotch burr. And in creating plain Maggie Shand, whose wit and wisdom were the making of her priggish husband's fortune, Barrie was practicing all Maggie's guile...