Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee's suggestion is therefore already, though somewhat tacitly, in effect. But the students in question are not thus given very much stimulus to education. They merely pass their courses, slither past the minimum requirements, and get a degree signifying little more than four years' watching innumerable and golden opportunities...
...Peerage of England, the illustrious Howards stand next to the Blood Royal. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk is empowered, as the hereditary Earl Marshal of England, to bear ''in the King's presence or absence" a golden staff, the upper part adorned with the arms of the Royal Family, the nether part with those of the Family of Howard. The great Duke of Norfolk is charged as Earl Marshal with the proclamation of a new King's accession, with the supervision of the funeral of a late King, of the Coronation of his successor...
...police work, popular as pets. By winning first prize in every show in which he has appeared, having himself declared "faultless" by Germany's best boxer judges, Dorian von Marienhof made it clear by the time he was 2 that he was the best boxer in Germany. Golden brindle, 60 lb., 23 in. at the shoulder, with white paws and chest, Boxer von Marienhof currently has the run of his chairman's ten-acre grounds, spends his mornings in the office where Fancier Wagner sells shares in him. His first U. S. appearance will be in the Westminster...
Having perused the 928-page "Golden Jubilee" Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog lately mailed to 6,500,000 customers, Printers' Ink last week marked three lessons for the average advertiser...
Then came an unexpected reward for good work quickly done. Strolling contentedly among his third-generation hybrids, Mr. Burpee was astounded to spy a golden super-double hybrid nasturtium with nearly 60 petals and three inches across. This was the result of a chance mutation, an obscure dislocation of the hereditary mechanism of the sort that many a geneticist holds responsible for evolution. "The nasturtium was most carefully watched," said Grower Burpee, "in every stage of development. Every flower was examined and it was discovered that these super-double flowers were entirely female sterile. They kept on blooming and never...