Word: golden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening night of the first-grade play. Up to the theater door came skipping the prettiest little girl in the world-her golden hair in loving braids, her skin like pinks in a bowl of milk, her chin arriving at a charming little point, her eyes as wide and innocent as a china doll's. But the lobby was packed tight with squealing children and shushing mothers. How to get through? The wide eyes narrowed, the pointed chin shot forward, and daddy's darling charged. "Hey!" a five-year-old hollered as he pulled her elbow...
Christmas is a golden time for the manufacturers of religious articles, and they pepper the pages of church periodicals with ads. This year Christians can give their favorite clergyman a ballpoint pen with a large cross for a clip-"An Exquisite Symbol of Faith" which "will put inspiration into every word you write" during "a lifetime of faithful service." Those with "vocation-minded Catholic boys" on their Christmas lists may consider a " 'Play-Mass' Set" made of "durable white plastic fabric, with brightly colored crosses," and consisting of "chasuble, maniple, stole, glass chalice, chalice cover, three altar cards...
...Burnett's The Secret Garden (1909), Marjorie Flack's China-flavored The Story About Ping (1933), E. B. White's gentle Charlotte's Web (1952)-goes right on selling a steady 10,000 to 20.000 copies a year. One of Simon & Schuster's Little Golden Books, The Poky Little Puppy (illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren), has sold 5.000,000 copies in 15 years. Since 1942, S. & S. has sold a total of half a billion children's books...
Religion has nearly vanished from children's books. In a catalogue of some 400 Little Golden Book titles, only ten have a religious flavor. To an extent, this lack is made up by publishing houses run by the various denominations. There is a Roman Catholic Blessed Mother Goose, with dogma-slanted lyrics ("There was an old woman who lived in a shoe/She had so many children because she wanted to"), and Mother Goose Rhymes for Jewish Children (by Sara G. Levy). Sample...
...damp victory kept the Lions running well toward the front in the race for professional football's Western Conference championship. And even the Lions' veteran (30) Quarterback Bobby Layne. the man with the golden arm. admits that it is such defensive experts as Schmidt that keep the competition close. "Everyone is using a four-three defense* now," explains Layne. "And from the four-three they can do anything. Say the four linemen rush you -then you've got seven men in the secondary, and you've really got to pinpoint your passes. Or they...