Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What seemed to have occurred was that several thousand rural bravos & marauders descended upon Leiyang to stage a good old-fashioned glut. Whole families were tortured until they told the whereabouts of valuables and gold. Dirty thumbs with ragged nails gouged out the eyes of stubborn misers or those who really had no gold. Finally surviving citizens of Leiyang were herded and penned into buildings which were lighted and burned amid awful outcries. The heathen, glutted to repletion, spread their grins and carried off their loot. Supplementary despatches confirmed that those burned & butchered numbered approximately...
...thought as he stood there in his white and gold lace, with his air of fine and simple dignity that there had never been an arrival more momentous-never anyone on whom more conflicting emotions were centered, hopes and doubts and fears, but above all confidence in his personal integrity and wisdom. . . . While I made my curtsy, it was all I could...
...Take back your gold!" was the customary rebuff given the villain of old-time melodrama when he tried to use his ill-gotten gains for improper ends, and if Senator Borah's plan succeeds he will be able to clear the name of the Republican party by applying the same method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear...
...team will be limited to only six men. It is expected that the man in charge of Freshman Gold will be the University captain. J. A. Hutchinson '30. The system used will be the same as that employed by the University team, each man coaching himself...
...Indian fantasy" Dance Selections Gold Coast Orchestra arr by C. F. Henderson...