Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Royal Ride. Fairytalewise the State Coach of gold and glass drew up at the portal of Buckingham Palace. The eight superb, matched horses champed their eight matched bits. In another instant the King-Emperor would venture out, alone. Suddenly came an impudent diversion...
...much as for a brilliant and airy prettiness. The surprising tangle of branches streaked with light in Ross E. Draught's Dead Chestnut gave the tree as much character as a face. William M. Paxton had sent in three portraits, for one of which he got the Beck Gold Medal...
...about-town who has stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas to kill his rival but remains to convince him that the lady has deceived both of them in her greed for gold. Accordingly they decoy her to the South Seas that they may punish her for so doing. Eventually, when her innocence becomes apparent, her first inamorata punches the young man-about-town, apologizes to the lady for his faint faith and prepares for a wedding...
...smash and nurse his shots against J. C. F. Simpson, best of British players. Mr. Pell, playing the greatest game of his eventful racquet history, beat Mr. Simpson three straight games. U. S. took the trophy, 3-2, and the players packed their racquets to proceed to the Gold Racquet tournament at Tuxedo; thence to Boston for the national singles matches...
Stunt fliers, automobile racers, pearl divers, bull fighters risk wicked wounds in the exercise of their bodies for gold. Not so fisticuffers, footballers, baseball players, golf champions who make most of the money. This winter, however, has seen a shift in money values which brings one sport at least nearer a financial level with its vicious risks. Professional hockey players are being bartered for many thousands, receiving presumably increasingly fat dividends for their efforts. One rumor floats about that the Montreal Canadians hold Howie Morenz, greatest of all hockey players...