Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first it was the Queen's Plate, for, in 1859, Her Majesty Queen Victoria granted "50 golden guineas ... to be run for at Toronto or such other place in Upper Canada as Her Majesty may appoint." Because the tradition founded then is unbroken, Summer came to Canada last week after the running of the King's Plate before the largest race-crowd to assemble at Woodbine Park, Toronto, since...
...Congressional windows but did not fire them. Congress sent an urgent message for help to Washington, who was then at West Point, and without waiting to see what the result would be, the members of Congress unheroically slipped through the back door and made their way through a golden June sunset to Princeton in New Jersey, thus abandoning the seat of government to eighty mutineers and a sergeant."-Washington-Hero or Image. It was to assure to Congress a home of its own where it could protect itself from insults of this character that the District was established. TENCH...
...would be a wonderful, a marvelous, achievement if the student palaces so dear to the public indignation actually remained palatial for more than their fleeting period of youth and novelty. Harvard has no golden baths, nor did it ever have, but if it had one might safely predict that within a year they would be discovered to be brass. The brief time necessary for delapidation, and worse, to set in college dormitories would be deemed impossible to any besides those who have witnessed it. Elevators originally described as "scaling the building and laden with cargoes of students" slow their flight...
...girl, whom he later married, told him to give up "that stuff forever." Then, said he, "I saw the bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale. . . . And I saw a country town, a country weekly, a country politician, with all the large leisure and golden opportunity for decency, comfort, usefulness and prosperity looming up before me as a career." Charles Michael Schwab (steel) visited West Point, entered the mess hall, saw the cadets were hungry, patted his pocket and said: "I have a speech here I planned to deliver but I guess...
...their 1927-28 advertising to men. Men, said F. A. Adams of Cincinnati to his associates, spend $60,000,000 yearly for cosmetics-perfumes, toilet waters, cold creams and talcums. A favorite talcum has been one that imitates a coat of tan. A new perfume intended for men is golden brown and has a bouquet reminiscent of Scotch whiskey. In the face of robust custom, the problem of advertising cosmetics to men is no less difficult than the problem of cigaret-makers advertising to women smokers...