Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday dinner of December 2 will be known as the International Golden Rule Dinner, which means in short that every person who observes the dinner will dine that Sunday on a diet of bread, stew, and cocoa varied by some fresh vegetables, and these persons will save the difference between this frugal fare and the customary American Sunday dinner in order to give it to the Near East Relief for the benefit of the starving children of Armenia and Anatolia...
...International Golden Rule Sunday was suggested by the International Near East Association at its conference in Goneva last September. The plan as there adopted provides that individuals and families throughout the world will forego their usual varied meal and give the difference in cost to the Near East Relief. Americans will feel especially the contrast between their fare and that of the child of Asia Minor, for the Golden Rule dinner follows close upon Thanksgiving...
Party leaders are naturally expected to make golden prophecies and it is for the layman to stand by and weigh the chances. In this case an examination of recent history will give Senator. Underwood's prophecy a fair foundation. Although the 1920 election hurled a Democratic administration from its seat with the condemnatory roar of a great plurality, the tables were turned in 1922, a scant two years later, in the state and congressional elections. The fickle plebes had grown so sour upon Republican administration that a good Republican governor in New York was turned out, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts...
...would trade musty volumes of their memories for the greeting accorded to Eleonora Duse,* 64, and still much alive, at her "American appearance after 20 years" at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. The great auditorium, crowded literally to the chandeliers, roared its united respect and admiration till the golden rafters rang. Duse, the greatest living actress, was accorded honor as majestic as it was sincere...
...glisten of real gold. This touch is by no means limited to what he writes and draws himself; all he needs to do is to write a paragraph or two in introduction and the body of the book which follows even though it be anthology, obligingly puts on a golden tinge. So with his latest collection of "Poems from 'Life'". The casual reader opens at the "brighter side of humour" in introduction, mildly interested in getting at the subject matter, smiles, chuckles, and finally laughs outright,--and the poetry that follows, good, bad, and indifferent, goes down as smoothly...