Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warfare starting in Jerusalem when Arabs attacked the sacred Jewish shrine of the Wailing Wall (TIME, Aug. 26) grew more intense last week. Hallowed to both religions is the small area marked by the ruins of King Solomon's temple. In it Mohammedans can view with pious awe a golden urn containing two hairs from the beard of the true Prophet. Nearby is the coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails of which the written word says when they fall out all things will come to an end. Of the many relics sanctified to Jews, holiest is the Wailing...
Over the western portal had emerged a figure, austere, terrifying in its solemnity. On its hoary head glittered a golden crown, over its shoulders shone a brilliant red chasuble. A long, patriarchal beard fluttered in the wind. For a moment the Figure was silent, then bellowed: I perceyve here in my majeste How that all creatures be to me unkynde, Lyvynge without drede in worldely prosperyte; Of ghostly syght the people be so blynde, Drowned in synne they know me not for theyr God; In worldely ryches is all theyr mynde...
...indigestion all the way over the sea. Because storms were ahead of them, most of the 60 passengers revised their wills. The dirigible rode out the storms comfortably. She tried to pass over Seattle. But winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining leg of her globe-trot, to Lakehurst, N. J., seemed commonplace after man's first flight across the whole vast, empty Pacific Ocean...
...glinting glass cases, $1,000,000 worth of stamps owned by 100 collectors. To signalize the event a model post office was erected where visitors could mail commemorative letters home by sticking on a lowly, uncan-celed, U. S. carmine 2¢ stamp, the latest issue of which celebrates the golden jubilee of electric light and Thomas Alva Edison...
...tents were unbogged and struck, correspondents asked at Scout headquarters if a valuable golden hatchet was really going to be left buried in Arrowe Park. "It was only gilded wood," beamed a Scout official, "and I expect by now it's been dug up and split into souvenirs." Lay visitors to the Scout jamboree, he added, had totaled 314,422, believed to be a record...