Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seems to me you have somewhat overstepped the bounds of journalistic facts and truth in coining your acidly brilliant phrase "the golden boys" to describe members of the Air Line Pilots' Association [TIME...
...City, Kalispell, Mont. or St. Joseph, Mo. Ladies Aid societies, Jolly Hour Clubs, bridge and church groups met and "partook of bounteous refreshments." There was pheasant hunting on the fields of the Middle West. Thousands of high-school football teams "clashed at the local gridiron." There were Halloween parties, golden weddings, marriages, christenings...
Along the montaña, the eastern slope, maybe oil would be discovered. The explorer Humboldt spoke of Peru as "a beggar sitting on a golden throne...
Wandering Byzantine craftsmen first brought "eikons" (images) into Russia, and set the stage for Russia's golden age (the 15th Century) of religious painting. Peter the Great hired Europeans to teach portraiture and allegorical landscape to Russian serfs (who were sometimes flogged for failure to produce a flattering likeness in good taste), turned 18th and 19th Century Russian art into a brackish backwater of the West...
Three hundred years did the rest. Daylight turned to yellow torchlight or faded out altogether. Some of Captain Cocq's men vanished into the night. Visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum praised the painting to the skies for its golden glow, its mysterious, impenetrable shadows. Reportedly it was Sir Joshua Reynolds who dubbed it "Night Watch," and the name stuck...