Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole of this present issue. There is plenty of pleasant nonsense, sustained from the verses on the first page through the burlesque accounts of the extraordinary exploits of Colonel (and Captain) Sir Harry Hard Sauce. But unfortunately this nonsense is frequently diffuse and inconsequent--the story of the Golden Girl's transoceanic flight would profit, for example, if there were in it less wandering of the fancy and more satiric thrusts. It is, moreover, a pity that L. C. Jones' bold and effective drawings cannot be provided with better text than that found on page 225. Sill in spite...
...Copenhagen, Maria Jeritza (Baroness von Popper), famed "golden" soprano of the Metropolitan, sang in Tosca twice, Carmen once, Tannhauser once. Contrary to their polite custom of appearing at only one performance in an operatic series, the King and Queen of Denmark, dressed in their bravest regalia, sat in their box every time Jeritza sang. The King gave the singer a decoration encased in a gold medallion and asked her to attend an intimate family party at the palace after her first performance. This Mme. von Popper did with dignity and delight...
...been six years buried, Enrico Caruso would not have enjoyed so large a burst of posthumous fame. The Caruso corpse, however, has not moldered in the earth, nor has any worm yet tunneled the golden passage of its throat. Like the late Nikolai Lenin (among all famed contemporaries the only other one) the body of the great singer has been subjected to a process of embalmment which will preserve the natural contour of his face and figure for, it is alleged, 100 years. At first, when he was put to rest in the Caruso chapel in the Naples Cemetery...
...Love and the Ladies," Mrs. Abbott has refused to mix black or even brown among the paints on her palette. The six short stories which make up the volume are woven of the golden mist of day dreams, and the silken threads of a playful imagination. The characters are frankly of the sort that never were on land nor sea but only in the mind of one who is willing at least occasionally to think of how pleasant things might...
...Silence is golden...