Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they drove him into the streets. Thence he went to the shores of Lake Ilmen, sang sorrowfully until there appeared Volkhova, Princess of the Sea. Instantly she loved Sadko for his song, told him that if he cast his net into the waters he would draw forth three golden fishes which would spell wealth, happiness. Sadko rushed home, cast aside his doting wife, proceeded to the quay where he wagered the merchants his head against their wealth that he could catch the golden fish. When he succeeded, found himself with heaps of glittering bullion, he asked three strangers what...
...Scrub Woman debacle. Admittedly the affair has received more publicity than its importance would merit, but the fault lies not so much with the newspapers as with the officials in charge of the matter. Either these gentlemen are firm believers in the adage that speech is silver and silence golden or that little boys should be seen and not heard. At all events the motives and intentions in this instance have been distorted far beyond the original design and the explanation makes its appearance too late even to attract attention...
Harvard will be pointing for its game with Marquette next Wednesday, its first contest after the recess. Advance notices have it that the Golden Tornado will present a formidable defensive team, one of the strongest in the Middle West. The sextet from Milwaukee trounced Michigan Tech, the same team that the Crimson trampled under an 11 to 0 score, in a recent game...
...FORTUNE'S first cover is a twelve-spoked wheel of the Zodiac, spun slowly against a golden sky by a shapely Goddess of Plenty. The management promised a different cover design in similar vein each month. Among the footnotes (relegated to the last pages after the scholar's fashion) it was told that Thomas Maitland Cleland, designer and typographer, executed the first cover and is the new handmaiden's important adjunct, Art Editor...
...Detroit, one Donald Henderson was arrested for passing a worthless check. He had with him a letter of thanks from President Hoover for a raincoat which Donald Henderson, one rainy day during the Golden Jubilee of Light, had removed from his back and loaned to the President...