Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tales except the Marxist one, crowded around Santa Claus (who in Russia is called Grandfather Frost and calls on Jan. 1-see cut). The Moscow radio started the year by broadcasting the cries of a newborn baby. "We don't know your name yet," cooed Announcer Yuri ("The Golden Voice of Victory") Levitan, "but we know you will have a grand and interesting life because you were born in Soviet land...
...crash; British railways settled down to healthy competition. In World War I competing railways had to cooperate, under national control. Then Britain's 123 lines were amalgamated into four great groups (the London, Midland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern, the Great Western, and the Southern). A mellow, golden age began for travelers on British trains. Unlike their U.S. counterpart, British railways have consistently made money from passengers, consequently gave them attentive service. British first-class compartments were among the most comfortable in the world. Dining cars offered deferential waiters, seats without queuing and even good food. The management provided...
Game of the Golden West...
...diggers say they found the mummified body of a young girl, almost perfectly preserved. She must have been the daughter, wife or favorite of a man of consequence; her clothes, still in good condition, were rich with fur and ornaments. She had a mirror of polished silver alloy and golden jeweled earrings. Close at hand were primitive musical instruments. (These and the girl's unusually long and slender fingers suggested to one of the romantic, but not very scientific, diggers that she may have been a musician...
Died. Meredith Nicholson, 81, last survivor of Indiana's literary Golden Age (his late contemporaries: James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Booth Tarking-ton), writer of once popular novels (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men); in Indianapolis. Romancer Nicholson, who felt that "you have got to get some brains into public office," turned from literature to politics, practiced what he preached as Indianapolis city councilman, diplomat (U.S Minister to Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua...