Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were shocked and indignant last week. They had supposed that she was honorably installed for life in Orient splendor, would never ride out again in anything less than an elephant's jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down by the Hindu Court of Nasik. In effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss...
...pompous and slow" is Amelita Galli-Curci's scornful dictum regarding grand opera. The soprano gives vent to this Parthian shot as she strides out for the last time before New York's "Golden Horseshoe". Coming from a singer who is herself neither pompous nor, one likes to think, slow, the criticism strikes the operatic world peculiarly abeam...
...Because Mrs. Hoover was abed with a cold, because Mrs. Stimson was on her way to London, because there is no Mrs. Mellon, it fell to tall, golden-haired, blue-eyed Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, wife of the Secretary of War, youngest Cabinet lady, to accompany President Hoover to the Mayflower Hotel last week to dine with Vice President Curtis and his hostess-sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann. After dinner the President and Mrs. Hurley went to a reception at the Congressional Wom en's Club, leaving Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Gann behind. Mrs. Gann did not attend with...
...radio sales to the public as actually due to this pernicious advertising. The radio public is, I believe, becoming nauseated by the quality of many of the present programs. Short-sighted "greed of the broadcasters, station owners and advertising agencies, is slowly killing the broadcasting goose, layer of many golden eggs...
General Manager Sheehan lives at Beverly Hills in a house of which he supervised the design and building. It has tapestry-covered walls, a sunken garden, a library ceiling imported from Spain. Three butlers serve dinner guests from gold plates and golden goblets. To summon them, Mr. Sheehan keeps on hand a dented, rusty cowbell which he jangles loudly when service is required...