Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the face of civilization, the shadows of ever changing ages cast kaleidoscopic patterns. Now it is the golden shadow of Romanticism blending into the rose of Humanism, now the purple of Classicism rising to the emerald of Idealism only to deepen into the ebon hue of Realism; then all the shadows intermingle to tremble back and forth across the mind of man, to influence man's living, to influence, perhaps his death...
Just such a pictures has Clifford Odets painted. "Golden Boy" is not a pleasant evening's entertainment; it is better than that. It is a superbly balanced piece of work. It is acted with appreciation and restraint by the entire cast. It is pithy, at times harrowing, and always interesting...
...record for swimming San Francisco's Golden Gate (about a mile and an eighth) is 20 min., 44 sec. A few weeks ago the Olympic Club's Distance Swimmer Leslie Godfrey ("Buster"') Olds decided to have a shot at this 18-year-old mark. Horse Trainer Ritchie Roberts boasted that his 12-year-old, five-gaited horse, Blackie, could do better, made...
...rnberg last month, Realmleader Hitler, having awarded Nazi Culture Prizes No. 1 and No. 2 to Warplane Designers Heinkel and Messerschmitt, surpassed himself as an esthetician with a new pronunciamento on German art. Now, said he. "the true ancestor of German art is Greek art of the golden age; the Greeks were a Northern people run aground on a Southern land...
...surest way for wheat farmers to get their fair share of the national income," said he, is for the Government to give the farmer the difference between his market price and what his crop would have brought in some Golden Age like that of 1909-13. Such payments are authorized in principle by AAA II whenever appropriations are made for them. Mr. Wallace boldly suggested that the best way to finance the payments would be to revive processing taxes, which the Supreme Court found illegal. "Why not use this kind of a tax once more?" he demanded. "We know...