Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philosophized the Lt. Col. Reginald V. K. Applin: "A woman loses her dignity when she parts with her hair. The beautiful story of Lady Godiva becomes coarse and unthinkable if we try to imagine her as riding without her long golden locks...
...woven chase, God and Gabriel had more than these companions. A jovial company of gentlemen, urging great horses and blowing on golden horns, were riding, running, through a wilderness of flowers. Their meek quarry fled through the brilliant fields; behind him, silent and happy, the pursuit increased and came more quickly; a wind stiffened in their flags and made the starry flowers bend across the grass. The white hounds leaned upon their leashes and the bowmen bent their bows. Crouching in a garden at last, the prisoned unicorn gazed upon his followers. They levelled spears amid a thousand flowers...
Blonde and beautiful Maria Jeritza, Austrian soprano, golden star of the Metropolitan in the winter and the Vienna State Opera Company in the summer, last week grew angry. She had recently gone to Paris with the Vienna company and had sung there in several performances. Medals and decorations were awarded to several members of the troupe, among them the great Jeritza. Jeritza's fury, which newsgatherers for no valid reason regarded as unjustified, resulted from the fact that she had been given, not the medal of the Legion of Honor, but the insignificant one of "Officer of Public Instruction...
...Modesty is always desirable; the truly great invariably seem to possess it. We admire the old athlete who keeps his golden emblems in his pocket or at home, rather than dangling from his watch-chain. Which reminds one--have you ever seen a P.B.K. man with a wrist watch? Echo answers 'Watch...
...Come, gentlemen, do the handsome thing! Elect Mr. Slocum to the society, and send him the biggest golden key that locksmiths can make...