Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excited diplomats caught their breaths as President Miguel Paz Barahona motioned him to the presidential chair. The U. S. youth, unsurprised, sat gravely down. Speeches. Hondurans coined for him a new nickname, "The Marvel Child." He was presented with a wafer thin watch hidden inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth hopped hurriedly into the cockpit of The Spirit of St. Louis, headed for Nicaragua...
...Third Engineers are proud of their comrade." So reads a bronze tablet to be affixed to Gold Hill, which looms beside the longest dry cut in the Panama Canal. This cut, nine miles in length, was called Culebra (meaning "snake") until...
...Juan is the ancient Shrine of Ponce de Leon and the new Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel. Juan Ponce de Leon was appointed by Columbus the Lieut. Governor of "Hispaniola" (Haiti) and from there captured the island of Porto Rico, believing it to abound in gold. Thence, he set out to discover the present island of Bimini, supposed to contain the "Fountain of Youth," but missed Bimini and discovered a bogus spring in Florida...
...days of moping, pallid Louis IX, "Saint Louis" (1226-70), Frenchmen dealt in a gold coin called the ecu or "crown." Last week M. le Professeur Charles Gide of the College de France proposed that a new ecu be struck with, the value of one U. S. dollar and that the present depreciated franc (4?) be scrapped...
...suite at the Ritz-Carlton yesterday afternoon Eddie Cantor, famous comedian of Ziegfeld's "Follies", proudly displayed a tiny gold football awarded to him for his services to the Crimson squad six years ago. "You bet, I'm one of the boys," he chuckled as he twirled the charm about on his watch chain, "and I'm proud of it. In 1922, on the eve of the Harvard-Yale gridiron battle, when the Crimson eleven was on pins and needles in New Haven, I grubbed with them and tried to cheer them up a bit. We had a great show...