Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Nance Garner, mildly sulphurous, bourbonophilous ex-Vice President, reached 77 in Uvalde, Tex., three days later celebrated his golden wedding anniversary with Wife Ettie, swore to live to 93, which would make him the "oldest Garner that ever lived...
...star of Victor's sky is the Met's Jugoslav-born soprano Zinka Mi-lanov. Her Pace, pace, mio Dio from La Forza del Destine and Voi lo sapete from Cavalleria Rusticana, helped by modern engineering, are improvements over most of the collectors' classics from the Golden Age. She also teams with the Met's Margaret Harshaw in a duet from Norma, and with Jan Peerce in the Miserere from // Trovatore. Others: Kerstin Thorborg, Blanche Thebom, Eleanor Steber, Alexander Kipnis...
...Perry County, Ky., a candidate for sheriff thumbed a banjo and sang a long ballad about a cabin boy on the ship Golden Willow Tree. The cabin boy had been promised the captain's daughter in marriage if he would sink a rival ship, The Roverie. The cabin boy "bored nine holes" in the Roverie and then...
...impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...
Principal victim of Tristan's and Iseult's love and cunning is Cornwall's noble (and mythical) King Mark. Tristan, Mark's favorite nephew, goes to Ireland to bring back golden-haired Iseult to be his uncle's bride. On shipboard, Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a love-philtre. Cries Iseult's horrified maidservant: "Friend Tristan, Iseult my friend . . . you have drunk not love alone, but love and death together." But "the lovers held each other . . . and Tristan said, 'Well, then, come Death...