Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chet" Morrison's slot-machines measures, tabled them indefinitely by an overwhelming vote. His legalized-bookmaking measure also faced certain death. Most legislators were less concerned with the dust storm of protest raised by the women's groups and churchmen than with kicking the goose that laid golden eggs for sheriffs and machine politicians...
Greying, affable Ed Jones is the biggest boss and at the same time the golden goose of Chicago's $25 million-a-year policy syndicate. As such, his well-being is the concern of thousands. His syndicate employs some 5,000 Negroes. Political bosses and ward heelers depend on him to deliver the vote; court officials and police get a healthy cut of the weekly $7,500 in syndicate protection money; the 337,000 citizens of Chicago's teeming Negro belt consider him a hero and a symbol. All of them insist that he remain free and happy...
...shaved in a $7,500 goldleaf bathroom, ate in a white-and-silver dining room at a glass-topped table, relaxed in a game room with a miniature pool table flanked by a rolling bar. Eighteen years ago Ed had been a Pullman-car porter. Now he had the golden touch. Would it work on the kidnapers...
Hero of this brief golden age was St. Athanasius, who almost singlehanded swung the Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) against the Arians* and made the doctrine of the Trinity the belief of all orthodox Christianity. In the 17th Century the Copts became prisoners of Islam. Millions of Copts were persecuted and driven from their faith by ridicule, taxes, restrictions. The Coptic language all but disappeared; the tongue of the Pharaohs survives today only in the long Coptic Mass, where it is chanted to the sound of cymbals and triangles. Coptic churches tried to escape attention by being outwardly drab, tucked...
...again like Hawthorne, Wilson is unable to relate his story to experience. In an already notorious passage in the section entitled "The Princess With the Golden Hair," Wilson describes in fulsome detail the events of an afternoon which his hero spends in bed with a woman. For all its daring detail the episode is lifeless. It is too clinical, too intellectualized-as the protagonist says-"I found that I was expressing admiration of her points as if she were some kind of museum piece." And for Wilson, all the residents of Hecate County are museum pieces, the bedeviled as well...