Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Gabriel MacDarby of the English Roman Catholic Church in Paris (St. Joseph's). Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop of Rouen, in the presence of a Legate of the Pope before whom a great golden cross was borne...
...private collectors -John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Friedsam, Charles M. Schwab, Jules Semon Bache, et al. Of another event-of-the-week Director Valentiner was prouder still. He was able to announce that, thanks to his own astute connoisseurship, his Detroit Institute of Art had acquired a genuine Titian, the golden, mellow portrait of a Venetian Doge. For this masterpiece, which he valued at $150,000, Director Valentiner had paid only $400, at an auction of part of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum's great Havemeyer Collection (TIME, March 24). It had been labeled "School of Titian," but Director Valentiner...
...attack has massed against the fortifications. As the bombing squadron comes in through the Golden Gate the attack planes rapidly circle the presidio in a protective maneuver. The main bombardment group bombs the presidio, turns below us toward Mather Field as the pursuit planes follow. . . . Goodbye...
High over San Francisco's Golden Gate during last week's western war games, Flyer-Artist Clayton Knight sketched the position of two "enemy submarines" driving toward the metropolis. He handed the chart to Lieut. Haydn P. Roberts, radio engineer, who inserted it in a cylindrical machine. Forty seven seconds later the drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography...
Stokowski has permitted himself to develop prima donna tendencies but the public at large continues to encourage them -perhaps because, like a shrewd prima donna, he has stayed picturesque: preserved his figure by exercise and a strict raw-vegetable diet, his fluffy golden hair by washing it every day himself. He is (with Boston's Koussevitzky a close second) the best-groomed conductor in the U. S., although it has often pleased him to shock fastidious gatherings by appearing in golf clothes. In public places it takes him an impressive length of time to remove his coat and arrange...