Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden Eggs? This was magnificent, so far as it went, but free Britons are fast learning what an appallingly short way ?300 millions go today in even the present "phony" (therefore "cheap") stage of World War II. Years ago the Nazis quit issuing Treasury figures, blindfolded the German people to what they were having to pay to get ready for Armageddon. Adolf Hitler boasted, when he entered conquered Poland, that this cost was 90 billion marks. He seemed to think that cheap. Economists shuddered...
...Omaha convention, which coincides neatly with the Union Pacific's Golden Spike celebration, Gracie will travel over the U. P. lines in W. Averell Harriman's private car, will have a torchlight parade of 25,000 whiskerinos...
When Hollywood laid its golden fingers upon Mr. Steinbeck, the great realist and his following sadly shook their heads. You couldn't expect to reproduce Toilers of the Land in the gloss of Klieg lights. Agricultural proletarians on a budget of a few hundred dollars a day simply wouldn't look human. There were limits even to what Hollywood could...
Instead of golden thrones on a dais, there was a Leap Year Birthday Cake four feet six in diameter, with 196 candles. Instead of the Royal Family, patrons (and arbiters) were the Duchess of Grafton, the Marchioness of Reading, Lady Lawrence, Mrs. Winston Churchill and Lady Duncan. Instead of being on the Crown, as at Buckingham Palace, the party cost each of the 1,100 guests a matter of 32 shillings sixpence ($6.37). And to emphasize that Britain is grimly at war, men not in uniform committed what in peacetime London would have been the most unpardonable faux pas-instead...
Buried somewhere on the plump green slopes of Cocos Island are pieces of eight and gold moidores; somewhere off the ancient stone paths is a cache of jewel-studded, solid gold chalices, golden altars, diamond-crusted vestments, 273 jeweled swords, a life-size statue of the Blessed Virgin, wonderfully wrought in purest gold...