Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plain golden oak casket received Nikola Pashitch at the last. Slowly, on a rumbling gun carriage, he passed to his grave through broad avenues which were muddy roads in his youth. As clods fell upon the casket a priest bearing a silver tray of steamed wheat gave to each onlooker a few grains which they munched in mystic symbolism...
Today and tomorrow the Harvard Dramatic Club presents at private performances at 8 and 9 o'clock the fifth annual Miracle Play against the "Cathedral background of the Germanic Museum," as the official notice phrases it. The cathedral background is the replica of the golden gate of Firebug that stands at the end of the Romanesque Hall and serves as an almost ideal stage for a religious play of this kind...
...plans were arranged: Yale, Mr. Harkness and Professor Baker had announced their mutual willingnes to cooperate in a plan which for almost fourteen years had been the hope and goal of many American people--devotees of the drama. The University had missed what many of us considered a golden opportunity in the fulfilling of her obligations as our oldest University. The drama was one of the first of the arts; the culture and erudition of all ages had contributed to her glories. Mr. Baker had worked for years to accomplish in this field what Harvard has been able...
...Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III. At once the buzz of Christie's quieted. The Aga Khan had recently offered ?100,000 ($486,000) for Solario, famed racehorse (TIME, June 21). He could bid up to almost any sum for the diamond "Golden Dawn" if he really wanted it. Perhaps a record in diamond bidding loomed...
Amid surprise, stillness reigned. No dealer raised the Aga Khan, though amateurs had expected the "Golden Dawn" to bring much more. Why did a 61½% -carat stone of such perfection go so cheap? Attention was distracted from this interesting question for a time by the coincidence that Princess Therese Aga Khan, wife of the Aga Khan III, died in a Paris hospital almost at the moment when her husband was bidding at Christie's. But why did the "Golden Dawn" go under the hammer at only ?4,950 ($24,057)? The price of diamonds has long been relative...