Word: goldene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitness to Rule. In 1939, when he assumed the throne of Baroda, the Maharaja's personal fortune was estimated at $300 million. Much of it was in precious stones, golden cannons, leopard-skin-lined Rolls-Royces, sacred elephants and palaces with alabaster corridors. In 1942 he approved legislation outlawing polygamy. Soon afterwards, at the race track in Madras, he met beautiful Princess Sita Devi of Pithapuram. He promptly broke his new law by taking her for his wife although both she and he were already married. (Under Hindu law, the Princess could not divorce her husband; so she simply...
...victory climaxed a long procession of California triumphs. Its girl divers. both talented and pretty, won first and second in every event; San Francisco's Ann Curtis hung up a new Olympic record in the 400-meter swim. And in the individual track & field events, California's golden boys really shone. They walked off with seven gold medals-two more than the Swedes, five more than the rest of the U.S. team. Had California competed on its own in track & field in London, the tally would have read: California 102, Sweden...
Some radiomen hated to let loose the goose before the golden eggs completely ran out. ABC was preparing to defend its shows, including the sensational Stop the Music (TIME, July 19). Others had still not decided whether to fight 'em or join 'em. But it seemed certain that no sponsor would want to take on a new giveaway program while FCC was in its disapproving mood...
...hardbitten or tired English tempers in later years, that felicitous pre-1914 age came to seem almost mythical; and Rupert Brooke, its golden lad, became himself a myth, romantic, heartbreaking, and also a little flimsy. He had written, when the war began...
...Press hovers over its readers from cradle to grave, enrolls them in its "Toddlers' Club" as infants, gives free golden wedding parties for them in their old age. It counsels its readers, consoles them and fights their civic battles so well that, like Reader Harriger, they regard it as an old friend rather than a commercial enterprise...