Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Moses, Ph.D., New York City's scholarly Park Commissioner, will be the Golden Lecturer this spring, it was announced by the University yesterday. He will speak on April...
...Golden Gate International Exposition on manmade Treasure Island at San Francisco (see p. 17) he said: "America's newest insular possession . . .is an outstanding example of territorial extension without aggression...
Culbert Levy Olson, California's first Democratic Governor in 40 years, thrust a $35,000 jeweled key into the lock of a gilded miniature Golden Gate bridge one morning last week and, with a symbolic push, proudly opened 1939's first world's fair, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Few minutes later, to the jealous joy of Florida, Franklin Roosevelt radioed his national benediction from Key West (see p. 13). Other orators of State and church completed the inaugural, but the sublimest signal of all had been furnished the night prior...
History, however, is likely to remember San Francisco's 1939 fair for none of these things, recalling charm instead of wonders. For no fair in history has had so beautiful a site as Treasure Island, just inside California's breath-taking Golden Gate, with the world's most awe-inspiring bridges stretching over and away from it. And San Franciscans have wisely chosen to make their fair gemlike rather than gigantic, compact (400 acres*), serene and gay. With one of America's few charming cities for its sponsor, GGIE may make history by being really pleasant...
Today, Paderewski's once-golden, once-silver mane is grey and thinning at the top. But he still sports the oversized, low, soft collars and droopy ties that he wore in the time of Queen Victoria. Watery-eyed and frail, but still erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like...