Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down below looms the mighty Golden Gate of the Cathedral of Freiberg, covered with intricate sculptures. Peter Vischer's Tomb of St. Sebald, with its majestic figures of the Twelve Apostles-- and his own aproned self down in one corner-- towers to the ceiling. After contemplating these Paul Kleinschmidt's twentieth-century "Tittering Woman," is irritating, although friends assure me that it too is art. But Albrecht Durer's "Geometry and Perspective", Nuremberg 1525, soon restores my good humour, and, at peace with myself and the world, I look out the window at the great bronze lion guarding the court...
Sirs: In your issue of March 8, Foreign News section, and under the heading "Golden Frame" you give various figures regarding the prices in force for seats from which to view the Coronation Procession in London next...
...Atherton, Richard Harding Davis, Kathleen Norris, Charles Michelson. Developed on the Examiner were Cartoonists "Tad" Dorgan, "Bud" Fisher, Homer Davenport. The Examiner first published Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe" and Staffwriter "Phinney" Thayer's "Casey at the Bat." Both were reprinted in the Examiners "Golden Jubilee Edition...
...Lindner dug up a prophetic cartoon of 1889 which fantastically foretold today's San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, the transport planes and air clippers which now roar in and out of the two cities. For readers of 1987, Manager Lindner had another prophetic sketch prepared. This showed the great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket-ship takes off below; a teacher & class flying...
AFTERMATH-Sir James George Frazer -Macmillan ($3). Supplementary volume to The Golden Bough, classic collection of primitive customs, beliefs...