Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived at the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin to understand it just as his five years as Viceroy were up, a misfortune which has more than once occurred...
...Massey, not Shilkret, was the author. Guy Massey himself cannot be called in to settle the dispute. He died stone deaf in San Antonio in 1925. Meantime, nobody doubts that Shilkret, now musical director for RKO Radio Pictures, is the composer of The Lonesome Road, Down the River of Golden Dreams, Some Sweet...
...Harvard's Fellows, waiting on the dusty stage, they filed like graduates in some fabulous commencement. First, according to seniority, came swarthy Professor Saleh Hashem Attia from that most ancient university, Al-Azhar, founded at Cairo in 970 A. D. Lanky, bespectacled President Conant, trying to keep the golden tassel of his mortarboard from slipping forward as he bowed, pumped Professor Attia's hand, drawled: "How do you do?" Next came delegates from Bologna, Paris, Oxford. Then up to the stage marched smiling Physicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and four other dons from Cambridge. As Chemist Conant grinned...
...ceremony replete with all the color that scarlet, golden threaded, ermine-collared robes slashed with white and green could give it, 567 delegates from every state in the Union and 40 foreign countries were received by Pres-Conant in Sanders Theatre...
Jerome D. Greene '96 was explaining to Aldrich Durant '02 the significance of the golden lions on top of the flagpoles. He said they were the insignia of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where John Harvard went and were therefore appropriate. Just then a passer-by was heard to remark, "Oh, look, they bought their flagpoles at S. S. Pierce...