Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Epes Todd, an undergraduate whose passion for football is gradually sublimated into books, redirected into a love affair. Harvard indifference ("a term never used at Harvard"), the baby deans, the Crimson, the Widener Library, athletes, tutors, students, socialites, exams, waiters-on-table, the clubs, lectures, Harvard's golden mean ("Three C's and a D and keep out of the newspapers"), its buildings, traditions, dreams-all these and more Author Weller has pasted up in his college scrapbook. Harvard readers may not like some of his pious preservations, may grow misty-eyed over some. Other readers will admit...
...Time" is no better this year than it was last. The voices are not the best, the acting is dated, the humor is not at all subtle, and yet audiences applaud and keep flocking to the Majestic every year. Along with a group of others that belong to a golden period in stage history, "The Student Prince," "The Prince of Pilsen," "The Red Mill," and "The Chocolate Soldier," the current attraction at the Majestic has captured a wisp of sentiment in the life of Franz Schubert, transplanted it into Vienna in April, woven around it Romberg's adaptations from...
...panoply purposes the celebration which took place in Old Delhi, India, after crafty Prime Minister Disraeli secured for Queen Victoria the additional title of Empress of India, was reproduced in the Garden with such historic fidelitv that the lead elephant's name was Technocracy. Another one, Lily the Golden, was a massive bulk of gilt bearing a gilded girl. A mighty blaring of brasses followed the pachyderms, from bandsmen geared out in topis like London bobby's caps. Missing were the mahouts, the ankuses, the jasmine garlands, the gas flares-but not missing was the public...
...Becher's Brook the second time, Kellsboro Jack, Remus. Delaneige and Slater, the horse Jock Whitney sold a fortnight before the race, were setting the pace. Gregalach missed the jump, fell and broke a blood-vessel. Miss Paget's Golden Miller, the prime favorite, lost his rider. At Valentine's Brook, Kellsboro Jack, getting a beautiful ride from little David Dudley Williams whom many experts consider England's best steeplechase jockey, took the lead. In the last mile huge Pelorus Jack, who caused several bad spills when he swung across the track in last year...
...aged 15, served in the Union Army, married Lily, the daughter of Eberhard Anheuser who had a brewery in St. Louis, went into partnership with his father-in-law and built up the greatest beer business in the U. S. In March 1911, he celebrated his golden wedding in his sunken gardens in Pasadena. (He had other estates near St. Louis, near New York, in Germany.) To his wife, Lily, who had given him seven children (two sons, five daughters) he gave a gold crown set with diamonds & pearls, worth $200,000. Two years later on one of his frequent...