Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring Dance is concerned with the stratagems of a group of New England college girls trying to make a footloose Yale boy stay home and marry a friend of theirs instead of taking an extended junket to Russia after college. As early as 1927 Eleanor Golden and Eloise Barrangon presented the first version of this romance to a sympathetic audience of classmates at Northampton. Producer Jed Harris got the play three years later, handed it over to his first-string playwright for doctoring five years after that. According to Miss Barrangon, Mr. Barry, the creator of such sophisticated dramas...
...night before I met Commodore MacFarlane, I set sail from what is now the San Francisco Yacht Harbor for Sausalito. In mid-channel the wind dropped and with a strong ebb: tide we drifted out through the Golden Gate. In those days, as many of the old-timers will remember, we had no auxiliary power, as sailors, men of the old school felt they could put their vessels into most any place they desired under their own sail by the old fashioned method known as "jayhawking." Drifting through the Gate a dense fog came in and I suggested...
Last week New Jersey's Commissioner of Education Charles H. Elliott upheld the School Board, rejected Principal Matteson's explanation that he had kept Carolyn McDavit after class to ask her to draw for the Scout magazine he edited so that it might win a Golden Quill merit badge...
...brokers raised their eyes to the two flag staffs at the northeast end of the trading floor, observed that the New York State flag was missing from its place beside the U. S. flag. Instead, they beheld the red banner of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, its golden hammer & sickle stirring gently under a slight draught. At this unprecedented sight, a group of reactionaries hissed, booed, catcalled...
...tells the story of Saha, a golden-eyed, jealous, aristocratic little animal that broke up a marriage, sapped the strength of young Alain Amparat until he came to care more for her than for his handsome wife. That Colette can make such a tale readable will be no surprise to her admirers. That she can manage to include in it many artful descriptions of amorous misadventures and much erotic play, they will take for granted. But if they expect her to make it plausible as well, they are demanding more of her fiction than she will give them...