Word: goldene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless year-end contributions to churches and charities take an unexpected spurt, said Manhattan's Golden Rule Foundation this week, U.S. giving in 1948 will stand at an alltime low-only 1% of the national income. During the depressed '30s, said the foundation (which bases its reports on income-tax deductions), contributions averaged about...
...Future-may it be a golden one everywhere for men of good will...
...When the Wise Men received the divine revelation that the king of the Jews was born, they made straight for Jerusalem, for, of course, they expected to find him at the capital in a lordly castle and a golden chamber. Where else would common sense expect to find a king...
Because there was no need for it in the golden '20s and no point to it in the depressed '30s, Wall Streeters stopped ringing doorbells. They just sat at their desks, did business over the phone. But last week New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram thought it was time for the Exchange to try to "sell" the market out of its slump. Schram wanted to "interest the public to buy securities regularly as a means of producing income, much as they have learned to purchase life insurance as a means of protection...
...could hardly get through her first group of Handel and Vivaldi songs. "I can't sing when I am emotional," she said. But when she got her own emotions under control, her listeners began to lose theirs. A singer in the great bel canto tradition, she was as golden at the top of her voice as at the bottom, and as velvety in her ringing forte as in her piano. And she could move her voice around as fast as a flute...