Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admen throughout the land last week. Out of it came the current issue of Editor & Publisher. It was no 50-page regular weekly issue of the Press's No. 1 tradepaper but a glittering, gilt-coated volume of 320 pages. The legend on the cover told the story: GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER-1884-1934. Backward through a series of competitors which it had absorbed during half a century, Editor & Publisher traced its origin to a 12-page sheetlet called The Journalist...
...General Göring appeared in a uniform of snow white silk from head to feet. Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...slit) screaming to a halt at a blue plaster farmhouse known in the new Fascist reclamation project at Sabaudia as Podere (Farm ) No. 685. The black-shirted peasant homesteader on No. 685 who had won the Dictator's notice by begetting seven children, had neatly stacked good golden wheat in the front yard. A flag flapped atop the stack and a government threshing machine stood behind...
Michael Joseph Curley strolled happily along the banks of the River Shannon last week. He gazed thoughtfully at the Irish farmhouse in Golden Isle, just outside Athlone, where he and his eight brothers & sisters were reared. He sat with closed eyes in a pew of little St. Mary's Church where, nearly half a century ago, he and a reedy-voiced youngster named John McCormack were altar boys together. He wandered in the ruins of the Clonmacnoise Abbey, just as he had wandered as a moppet, when the spell of the place impelled him to study for the priesthood...
...been prowling Central Asia almost continuously ever since. Expert hydrographer and cartographer, he carries only the simplest instruments on his expeditions, depends largely on the measured stride of his riding camel for computing distances. For Chicago's Century of Progress he directed the reproduction of Jehol's "Golden Pavilion." Short, bland, unmarried and 69, Explorer Hedin is now completing a railroad survey for China's Nanking Government. Though A Conquest of Tibet had to be translated, it has not yet been published in any other country than the U. S. Other books: Adventures in Tibet, My Life...