Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way. Miss Mackay, with Capt. Hinchliffe and their golden-winged monoplane Endeavor, is in the limbo of the lost...
...campaign chest of the Republican Party. In the name of God, Members of the American Congress, I beseech you to give us our independence before the Philippines, like the 'Teapot Dome' and the naval oil lands, are donated to campaign contributors whose mouths are watering for our golden natural resources...
Through his capital, Phnôm-Penh, the body of King Sisowath was borne, last week, in a jewel-studded golden urn, displayed atop a tall, pyramid-like funeral car. At the time of his death, the once straight and stocky King Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been doubled up and forced into the urn. Over him was poured mercury and then a topping of aromatic oils. Previously the Monarch's eldest son, now King Monivong of Cambodia, had intoned in the dead King's ear: "May Buddha receive you. May Buddha receive you! MAY BUDDHA...
...Quickly he assembled U. S. settlers, made Suiter's fort his base, marched the length of California, put an end to Mexican domination, was made provisional governor and com-mander-in-chief of California. He paused only long enough to name San Francisco harbor the Golden Gate. Meanwhile, the U. S. had declared war on Mexico and a General Kearney arrived in California to take charge. Kearney and Frémont quarreled so violently that a lieutenant named William Tecumseh Sherman wondered: "Who the devil is the governor of California...
...starvation while some of his guides nibbled a human body. That was in 1849 when "time was worth fifty dollars a minute," but Frémont did not know it. He arrived in California to find gold-mad whitemen, redmen, yellowmen, blackmen, and himself the owner of the golden Mariposa veins. His wife came by boat and soon their home was filled with "hundred-pound buckskin sacks, worth not far from $25,000 each." California's richest man and most popular idol, Frémont was elected U. S. Senator. He spent little time in Washington and was defeated...