Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benjamin Franklin, printer, philosopher, scientist, author, patriot and first citizen of Philadelphia, is America's universal man. Perhaps the most attractive aspect of his greatness was that he managed to be a kind of human golden mean-wise, moral, prudent, without being dull. This first volume of his collected papers gives readers the happy chance to get reacquainted with Franklin's winy wit, sage maxims and arrow-swift mind...
...Plain, Golden...
...overflow crowd of worshipers last week watched the 46-year-old bishop enter San Francisco's Grace Cathedral at the end of the procession, carrying his golden crosier and thoughtfully blinking his eyes behind his black-rimmed spectacles...
Jumbo died in 1910, and the golden age of heiresses and coronets went with him. The same year, Mary Pickford became America's sweetheart. As Author Eliot sees it, the events were symbolically linked. The age of society, such as it was, had ended, and the U.S. entered the age of celebrities, such as they...
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