Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden Dawn...
...boned, with a wide-flaring bronze beard and sweeping mustachios. "There was an elegance about him. He wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode in a gray shell jacket, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. His soft, fawn-colored hat was looped up on the right with a gold...
Stuart was a hard fighter and disciplinarian, but he was also ''a social type, loving people, laughing much, leading out in song. He had a rich and golden voice. He was fond of charades and wrote execrable poetry, affected anagrams. There was never any sadness where he was." Wherever Stuart went he took Trooper Sweeny, onetime minstrel, to play the banjo. But he never touched liquor and he stopped all Saturday dances at midnight, for he "had serious ideas about Sunday." During the long, hopeless war (which he would never admit was hopeless) he saw his young wife...
...assured forever of low prices. It was the year that he hired Publisher George Henry Doran away from his own book firm to run the Hearst-Cosmopolitan Book Corp. But eclipsing all these milestones was that French business. Nothing like it had come to Mr. Hearst since the golden years when he was precipitating the Spanish-American war, getting the Panama Canal fortified, startling the nation with the Yellow Peril...
Georgia Tech's Golden Tornado petered out against the hard-running members of Carnegie Tech's pony backfield. Carnegie Tech 31, Georgia Tech...