Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he reached Spain, fickle King Ferdinand had veered around again, contrite Queen Isabella was in tears. Columbus appeared at Court bedight with golden robes. His son, Fernando, revealed long afterward that the irons were kept by Columbus "in his closet" for the remainder of his life (six years) and that he ordered them laid beside him in his tomb...
...found notoriety in "flying" record distances?with an experienced man pilot at the controls. Many another woman has announced plans for spectacular solo flights?which have never materialized. Hence, last week, the British Empire and then the world at large became aware with some astonishment that Amy Johnson, 22, golden-haired secretary, graduate of Sheffield University, was performing a prodigious feat in her flight from Croydon, England, toward Port Darwin, Australia...
...Golden silence is a coin few men can keep, more especially if they have been spendthrift talkers, boasters, threateners -as Signer Benito Mussolini used to be. Three years ago Il Duce resolved to become reticent, publicly announced his resolution (TIME, June 6, 1927), and has kept it with superhuman willpower. No longer does the Peace of Europe tremble every fortnight at his roar. Last week, however, the Dictator permitted himself a sort of spree, dashed at breakneck speed around Tuscany in his bellowing Alpha Romeo, fought a fencing match at Lucca, kissed on both cheeks his adversary General Romeo Lunghera...
...millenium of political honesty on the banks of the Charles seems to have evolutionized into the Golden Age of incompetency. The latest false step of the committee in charge of the Student Council elections is doubly regrettable since the five men now serving on the board should, according to all pass-words of democracy, be those most desirable in the eyes of the class of 1931. Unfortunately, for democracy, not more than three of them can legally lend their services next year...
Hardy's life was quiet, from preference (and personal appearance). "Crushes," receptions and balls called forth no Hardy harangue but found little favor in his eyes. His only ambition was to have his poems published in a good anthology, like Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Asked to succeed the late great George Meredith as president of the Society of Authors, he wrote : "I must . . . perform the disagree able duty of acting upon my own conviction of what is for the Society's good, and tell you that I feel compelled to decline the honour." A few weeks later he accepted...