Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days when a university was a place of learning rather than of teaching those words had a sublime signifleance. The hours of scholarship, were in retrospect at least, silver with thoughtful speech and golden with silent thinking. But the Spirit of the Hour under whose dreadful rule Harvard now swears and sweats by turns is of a very different nature, with a more malign influence...
Beauty's prize is a golden apple, smooth, lustrous, a pretty toy. The prize of 'leadership is a prickly pear...
FASHION, or LIFE IN NEW YORK? The Provincetown Players' revival of a comedy of the '40's with all the sentiments, asides, songs, characters appropriate to that Golden...
...exquisite setting for the bronze doors, which are masterpieces of Italian cire perdue work of the 16th Century, said to be as fine as those of the Baptistry of Florence. The most conspicuous object in the hall is a bronze bust of the Marquis of Pescara, wearing the Golden Fleece, ascribed to Benvenuto Cellini. In the rooms, which will form the happy hunt-ing-ground of bibliophiles living and bibliophiles yet to be born, are some of the choicest books in existence, ranging from the rare incunabula (books printed before 1500) to autograph copies of books by famous authors...
...Duchess of Vendome, nee Princess Henrietta of Belgium, sister of King Albert, addressed to the people of France a public letter inviting them to associate themselves with the people of Belgium in celebrating the golden jubilee of Desire Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines...