Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombing mission was long and risky: a 2,100-mile flight to hit the Jap-held nickel port of Pombelaa on Buton Island. Eleven men rode to battle in the big 6-24 Liberator bomber "Golden Gator," but only four lived to see their North Australian base again. Navigator Lieut. Robert Jones had tears in his eyes as he told Chicago Tribune Correspondent...
...right article and no mistake!" cried Alexander. He was dead right. Two years later the brothers hit the jackpot again with Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays. Soon they added Thomas Huxley and Matthew Arnold to their list, gained wide prestige with Palgrave's Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics and The Cambridge Shakespeare...
...Spiritual Home. The result is that in "Anglo-Saxon society a man can attain permanent eminence only [by] showing real or ostensible moral stature." In turn, that fact has led to steady progress toward "the golden mean which reconciles the necessary control of the modern state with the greatest feasible liberty of the individual." This Anglo-Saxon democracy, "like walking, is a continually arrested fall forward"-imperfect, surely, but the best there is and a wonderful thing at that. Concludes Baldwin: "Though the white race should disappear from the earth, yet if the American Negro and the Chinese carry...
Everett Marshall's powerful baritone, used to the role of Dr. Engel, the Prince's tutor when he goes to Heidelburg for one year of freedom before becoming King, dominates the stage the few times he appears on it; he gives a fine rendition of the operetta's them, "Golden Days;" but a little less repetition of it in the beginning would have made the song more moving near the end when it reminds the Prince, who has become King of his days as a student...
Jimmie formed a band for "gigs" (one-night stands) which was booked through James Reese Europe's Clef Club. He played for debut parties at the Plaza, the Waldorf. He heard what Scott Fitzgerald once described as "a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers" shuffling "the shining dust." Jimmie began making pianola rolls, often in the same studio with a youngster named George Gershwin...