Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When resident Tutors grow Philosophic over a bowl of fresh vegetables soup there is a distinct possibility that the story will be good Crime material. Last night one who had been a Senior in Hollis in the golden days of the early twenties revealed that even the age which produced so many hard headed Faculty members was not without its sense of the ridiculous...
...substitute.* After the rainy season it forms on the succulent carnauba leaves, sealing up moisture for the arid months. Natives cut the leaves twice a year, dry them in the sun, beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm. Some natives boil the wax in water; others toast it in a dry kettle. Finally, they strain it through a cotton cloth, leave it to cool. From 1,500 to 2,500 leaves are required for one arroba...
Henry Ford, who had paid $100,000 for radio-broadcast rights, changed seats in his family box to avoid photographers. Babe Ruth sat in the Press box with a white carnation in his buttonhole. In Detroit, Matthew Golden, of Old Saybrook, Conn., proudly announced that he was 72 and had not missed a game since 1903. In Chicago, one George Alms slept on the sidewalk in a tar-paper bag to keep his place at the head of a ticket line. It was the "World Series," between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, for the professional baseball championship...
...GOLDEN APPLES -Marjorie Rinnan Rawlings-Scribner...
...rewarding passages in Golden Apples are those dealing with Luke and Allie Brinley, children of poor farmers who were left orphans when Luke was 14, Allie 10. Avoided by their neighbors, who felt guilty at deserting them but did not want to be burdened, Luke and Allie tried to farm, then ran off into the wilderness where they took over an abandoned house owned by an English family. Their independence, isolation, and desperate attempt to make the place habitable seem to promise that Golden Apples is to develop into one of those honest fantasies of man's barehanded struggle...