Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know what on earth persuaded you to give up your six-page paper. You appeared to me to have found for the first time in your history a constructive way out of the morass of bulletin-board take journalism which had characterized your columns in the so-called "golden-days" before the six came in. I am told that the progressive editors of your paper were over-ruled by the stick-in-the-muds who had retired from active work. They were of the opinion that an arm-chair sheet, with fat salaries and dull stories, was the more comfortable...
...women were of darker complexion with 39 per cent of brunet skins to 31 for the men. The commonest color of hair was golden brown; dark brown and black hair was found to be commoner in men, while red hair was twice as frequent in the female sex. Golden blend hair was more often found in males, but due to the higher average age of the females, they were the more predominantly gray-haired...
Knight of the Golden Fleece, onetime vice president of Imperial Austria's Upper House, a Colonel-General of Cavalry so reckless of his own safety that he was wounded four times in the War. the Prince has a long record of gallantry. But to Viennese that record means nothing compared to the day, month ago, when unarmed and unguarded he walked into the Socialist lines smiling like a kindly grand father to tell sullen crowds: "I am Schonburg. . . . Now do drop this game like sensible people and go home...
MUCH attention has been devoted by novelists to California in the days of the Gold Rush, but little has been written of the agricultural and industrial development which followed on the heels of the forty-niners, and gave the Golden State and its people their peculiarly distinctive character. Francine Findley has in "Treeless Eden" limned an admirable picture of this development; the foundation of the book is the influence on the character of the Californians of the fertile soil, of the newness of the country, of the splendid untouched natural resources, of the new forces stirring in America...
...Spanish historians shed some light on the Coclée culture before it was destroyed. The Coclés had several distinct castes. Aris- tocrats painted and tattooed themselves, wore few clothes, as many precious ornaments as they could. The women supported their breasts on a pair of golden bars which were carried by thongs over the shoulders. For protection the fighters had golden helmets, golden elbow-length cuffs, golden greaves. For arms they had clubs, spears, arrows and darts which in the air made a whistling noise. The chiefs and nobles were polygamous. They ate with their fingers...