Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student wakes up to the buzzing of his alarm clock at twenty minutes to ten. Before he has had time to compose himself for a last nap before his ten o'clock class the Catholic Church east of the Gold Coast chimes a mellifluous quarter hour and it is time for him to get up. At Arthur's ten minutes later it is still quarter to ten; so, reassured, he sits down to hearty breakfast. At ten precisely he begins his leisurely stroll to class until he casually glances up at the Memorial Hall to find to his consternation that...
...Passed a bill sponsored by Chairman Butler of the Naval Affairs Committee to afford Gold Star Mothers and unremarried widows two-week trips (first class) to U. S. cemeteries in Europe at Government expense, any time within three years after July 1, 1928; sent it to the Senate...
...something more valuable, to himself, than its ingredients. He has a precious name. He calls it the "Golden Treatment," and thereby he trades quackishly on the fame of the late Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. Keeley Cures (a few still exist) loudly but dubiously used the double chloride of gold in "curing" drunkards...
...theoretical but unsound basis of his cure was the double chloride of gold. He prated: "It acts like vaccination, eliminating from the system the element which has an affinity for the poison in alcohol. . . . Gold acts on the higher cerebral nerve centres, the seat of the diseased will and the mania for strong drink." Because his treatment had some practical success, simple folks fixed their memories on gold. Therefore the subtle plausibility of the Haines Golden Treatment...
Michael Joseph Curley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, recovering from pneumonia in a Baltimore hospital, was disturbed and annoyed by the description of a most lamentable event. A henchman had opened the Archbishop's safe to ascertain the presence of the gold chalice, inset with jewels, which the Catholics of Baltimore had given to the late Cardinal Gibbons on the 50th anniversary of his ordination (1918), also, the presence of the diamond-studded handle to another chalice, the gold cross of Archbishop Curley's chain, his watch, and $90 in currency. These things were not, as they should...