Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week wrathful Teller Beckett, like a man beside himself, laid hold of the massy golden emblem, raised it to his shoulder and attempted to scurry out of the House! Up at once, aghast and furious, leaped Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, the Sergeant-at-Arms, to dash from his pew in pursuit. But Sir Colin's ceremonial sword caught in the pew, delaying him, and it was a spry messenger who overtook Beckett, took the Mace from him, handed it to Sir Colin when he arrived. Sir Corin then, with measured tread and awesome frown, marched back with Cromwell...
...Japanese soldier-patriarch, commander of the Emperor's 2nd Army in the Russo-Japa-nese War; after long illness of bronchial catarrh, at his home in Tokyo. Born a Commoner, his war services won him the titles of Baron and Count, First Class of the Order of the Golden Kite, Japan's Highest military award. He was made Field Marshal...
...Eucharistic Congresses at London in 1908, at Montreal in 1910 (after which he toured the U. S., was the guest of President Taft); on many occasions a Papal representative, envoy, nuncio, or internuncio (among them: coronation of Tsar Alexander III of Russia in 1881, at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee); great & good friend of the U. S. (said he: "America is a dollar nation, but it is not dollar-mad? it is the future stronghold of the Church"); of uremic poisoning and nephritis after being in poor health since 1927; at Vatican City...
...educative function of the cinema. It is a record of the expedition, supervised by the Algiers Museum, of the travels in Libya of Archeologist Count Byron Khun de Prorok, whose excavations are made conceivable to non- archeological audiences by the explanation that he is looking for the golden tomb of the White Goddess of the Sahara. Some of the things his camera sees are "the Wall Street of Carthage," a bleak row of empty stone buildings; amphitheatres where the lions of Libya enjoyed Christians; the place where Cato committed suicide; a strange unknown city called the City of Fear, buried...
...Provo, Utah (hometown of Senator Reed Smoot), Mr. & Mrs. Francis M. Barney celebrated their golden wedding, felicitated each other on their 14 married children. Mr. Barney further signalized the occasion by getting drunk, choking and threatening to kill Mrs. Barney. She sued for divorce...