Word: golden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heartland of the manufacturing East was dead: steel was down in the greatest strike in history. The smoke lifted over Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. The glow of slag dumps dimmed in Birmingham, Ala. The blast furnaces of South Chicago and Youngstown, from which swaying ladles had drawn the molten seed of national growth, now cooled in unnatural silence. The wonder of the world, a national capacity to produce 95,000,000 tons of steel a year, was wonderfully impotent...
...Golden-voiced Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, U.S. Catholicism's famed proselyter, pulls 3.000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday but is on the air only four months of the year...
...having a brilliant opera season this year. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Magic Flute, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Otello and Rigoletto, Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, Hindemith's Cardillac and Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. There will be no Wagner this winter...
...hero of Brideshead Revisited is Charles Ryder, an architectural painter. When young Charles became an Oxford undergraduate in the golden age (circa 1921), life still flowed unruffled in Oxford...
...certain land in a certain kingdom, there lived a King called Vyslav Andronovich." The King had a garden with an apple tree that bore golden fruit. "The Firebird took to visiting King Vyslav's garden; her wings were golden and her eyes were like oriental crystals." Every night she stole the golden apples. King Vyslav called his sons: "My beloved children, which of you can catch the Firebird in my garden? To him who captures her alive I will give half my kingdom during my life, and all of it upon my death!" The princes answered with one voice...