Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book begins with the end of the Golden Day of Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville, and the start of the new world of industrialism brought to a sudden birth by the Civil War. How was this new world to be interpreted in literature, and who was to do it? One by one the post-war men of letters are held up for scrutiny and found wanting. Each failed to realize the task before him, or realizing it, fled from it. The sectionalists, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Eggleston and Cable, did not comprehend the whole. The fugitives, Sarah, Orne Jewett, Henry James...
...reaction to go so far as this, and their only alternative will be a series of imperialist wars with the object of national enslavement. At present Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Hitler, Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Mussolini, and, I dare say, M. Daladier's successor are each aiming for the vast golden apple of imperialism, expansion of exports and restriction of imports. Each of them has stated this explicitly. None of them has suggested how it can be simultaneously achieved by everybody. But it does not take a very piercing vision to see what will happen if it be simultaneously attempted by everybody...
...that their evil influences may not be extended to other prisoners." They will not be subjected to "unusual or unreasonable environment." the Attorney General explained, and only real incorrigibles will be sent there. To Alcatraz will probably go Kidnappers Harvey J. Bailey and George ("Machine Gun") Kelly to view Golden Gate sunsets for the rest of their natural lives. Alphonse ("Scorface Al") Capone may be transferred there from Atlanta Penitentiary.* The Army keeps only two guards armed to watch over the 38 military prisoners now incarcerated on Alcatraz. Since 1858, when Alcatraz first became a military prison, only one convict...
...last week to act out in good earnest the situation which Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood and his U. S. producers made much hay with as Reunion in Vienna. In Rome's Imperial Hotel, they bowed their heads and bent their knees in a chamber where, on a borrowed golden throne raised on a dais, sat Zita, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, mother of Otto, the 20-year-old pretender to the throne of Austria, Hungary or both...
...Crookston, Minn., Everett Latta. fisherman, saw a golden eagle soar past him. Everett Latta cast his line, hooked the golden eagle, knocked it off a tree with a chunk of dirt, strangled it to death with his fish line...