Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legends of a Golden Age or a Garden of Eden are probably dim memories of the lost homeland whence the restless Sumerians drifted into the Euphrates Valley. They knew how to use the wheel and the arch, how to irrigate their lands, and they had begun to write, Belief in immortality is indicated by the sacrifice of servants after a royal death. Clay cups were always found in the tombs beside the victims, and Dr. Woolley's energetic wife guessed that they drank a narcotic or poison. Her husband finds this plausible, makes bold thus to recreate a royal...
...Riddle's pigeons laid golden eggs, all yolk with neither shell nor white, because he removed their thymus glands. Dr. Rowntree's husky baby rats played precociously because he stimulated their thymus glands with sweetbread extract. Then Dr. Riddle turned another neat trick by giving sweetbread extract to his thymectomized pigeons, which promptly began to lay normal, shell eggs...
...boys and girls were in a similar thymic state, they might be fully ready for parenthood at the age of eight or ten. But that thought suggested sociological possibilities from which Dr. Rowntree and his biological friends shied. Two days later, Dr. Riddle told his story of the soft golden eggs. Into the eager-eared members of Manhattan's American Institute who gave him a gold medal for the occasion, he poured a rhapsody on thymovidin, his name for the thymic extract he used. "When," cried he, "these studies were made, the thymus which we all wear close...
...sacrilegiously spilling the blessed wine, or of delaying the rite in presenting it to large numbers of people. The celebrant of the mass alone drinks from the chalice, save for the Pope in Rome. When he receives communion at a Papal High Mass he drinks the wine through a golden pipe. Lutherans receive communion in the two species, from a common cup or from individual ones as the pastor may decide...
Maxine de Shone, tall statuesque burlesque queen now appearing in "Hazel Nuts from Brazil" at the Park, smiled upon the reporter, and he wilted. Pirouetting upon her heel, the girl with the golden voice winked at her boy friend, and announced herself ready to tell all about her private life...