Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, one of the most prominent bookmen of the country, wrote of him: "Mr. William A. White . . . was among the earliest of our collectors to gather the choice and alluring volumes of the great Elizabethans. His judgment was excellent and he had a vivid understanding of this golden period, equalled by few scholars: He did not hesitate to lend his finest volumes to any student who showed an intelligent interest in English literature...
Steaming in through San Francisco's Golden Gate, last week, came the President McKinley, bearing a petite, blue-eyed German Fraulein of twenty-two. Resting an elbow on the ship's rail and cuddling her small chin in a pensive palm, she gazed at Las Papas, those twin, majestic mountains called "The Breasts." Then, having admired the view, Fraulein Clarenore Stinnes coolly turned to confront excited reporters...
...wood piles along the way. . . . About half the passengers usually eat in the diner. The other half buy food from the peasants and have picnic meals in their compartments. The peasants gather at the stations at train time with all kinds of cooked food for sale . . . good bread, golden honey, boiled milk, roast ducks and chickens...
Beneficiary. The chief beneficiary of the great Postum Company's expansion is golden-haired Marjorie Post Close Hutton, whose father took roasted wheat bran and molasses out of the Battle Creek oven 33 years...
...want people to think me pretentious, but I have received such high tokens already, for example, the Golden Plaque for Art, given me recently by the King of Denmark, that I am not able to accept inferior decorations...