Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Convention manual stands for information and not for inspiration. I feel that at this time silence is golden. No mantle of Elijah has fallen upon my shoulders. As regards Prohibition, I begin to fear that as a nation we are rapidly losing all sense of proportion. . . . God forbid! Are all virtues, all qualities, all ideals, all ability, forcefulness, statecraft, integrity and record of a candidate to be swept aside by the question: 'Is he Wet or is he Dry?' And yet we are not a primitive people...
...Golden Umbrellas, After landing at Vancouver, after greetings from Canadian officials, Siam's King & Queen will board the Canadian Pacific private car Van Home, their suite will board two compartment Pullmans, detectives and guards will board two ordinary Pullmans, and, with diner, club car and baggage car attached the Royal special will speed Eastward, crossing the U. S. frontier at Portal, N. Dak. about midnight April 19. Drowsy officials despatched 1,700 miles by the State Department will extend greetings to H. R. H. the Prince of Sukhodaya (King Prajadhipok's incognito...
...more poetic titles, inherited from long ago: King of the North and of the South, Descendant of Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas. (Resembling in theory the Pope's triple-tiered tiara, multiple umbrellas are in many parts of the Orient the symbol of regal power...
...Chicago boxers: 13 out of 16 bouts against New York boxers; at Chicago, in an annual inter-city match between the winners of New York and Chicago amateur "Golden Glove" tournaments conducted by the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune...
...handed giant turns on a rope high up under the Big Top. She fell and was killed when a trapeze ring broke with her in Copenhagen last February (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week her husband, Trapezist Alfredo Codona, "The Wizard of Flight," brought back her ashes in a golden urn. Airplanes dropped wreaths on his ship as it came up New York Harbor. There are still 800 other performers in the Circus, however-whip-crackers who knock the caps off bottles 50 ft. away; whooping cowboys; clowns who operate explosive Fords; agile gymnasts; "strange people from the far corners...