Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey curtain. The yellow afternoon sun turned the thousand gilded spires of Bangkok into spikes of flame. Along the waterfront, in ferryboats, tugs, launches, sampans and barges, every Bangkokian who could find foothold was wedged, patiently waiting, eyes fixed on the royal yacht Mahachakri as it poked its golden prow toward the landing. The King & Queen of Siam were returning from...
...cents invested in twenty packages of Wrigley's best. Then, with wonderful business ideas seething through his head, he offered them for sale. But, alas, always a tender fellow, he capitulated; they went for 67 cents. And now a certain lady is making a golden mint from the double one she had not eschewed...
...hearses, caskets, embalming tables, embalming fluids & cosmetics, deodorants, artificial wreaths & grasses, grave markers, white gloves, folding chairs. The past month was an important one for that industry and its press: important for the industry because it witnessed a large number of regional conventions, culminating last week in the Golden Jubilee Convention of the National Funeral Directors' Association in Detroit; important for its press because there was big news to be reported and because of the advent of a new magazine, Mortuary Digest, published in Los Angeles by Fred Witman...
...organizations who have brought pressure to bear upon the respective colleges. It should at once satisfy the proposal of the student council that the undergraduates take some part in the relief program; it should meet the demands of the aldermanic committee who constantly look up to Yale as a golden Santa Claus; and finally it should appeal to the athletic association in providing a substitute for a regular post season game. A proposition that appeared to the association to be leaded with dynamite." --Yale News...
...Annie 'Fellows Johnston, 68, authoress, after long illness; at Pewee Valley, Ky. Born in Evansville, Ind. she attained fame as the author of the "Little Colonel'' books, a series of juvenilia much admired by the girls of the last generation. The heroine, a bright child with golden curls, was the favorite of her old Confederate grandpapa, hence her nickname. Mrs. Johnston began writing "Little Colonel" books in 1892, definitely ended the series in 1929. Several years ago she was told that a child had undergone a major operation without anesthetic on being promised a shelf full...