Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professors Adolph Goldschmidt and Eric R. D. Maclagan, visiting professors at the University, will give today the third and fourth lectures of their respective courses. Professor Gold-schmidt will treat "Gothic Architecture in Germany, its Derivation from France and its Particular German Forms" in a lecture to be given at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Old Fogg Museum...
...Busch inherited one-eighth of her husband's $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 estate. On their golden wedding anniversary-to which President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Emperor Wilhelm and many another sent presents- Mr. Busch gave Mrs. Busch a diamond-and-pearl studded crown of gold valued $200,000. August A. Busch, their son, protested last week that the gems seized from his mother & sisters must be parts of a "rope of diamonds" which his father gave his mother and which she had had broken up into bracelets in Germany this year...
...succeeded his father, the 16th Earl, who was noted for his generosity, his stables and his conservative manners; he referred always to King Edward as "the King, my august master." The present Earl was educated at Wellington College and spent his early years in the army, holding many frilled, gold-laced positions. He entered politics with little enthusiasm and no ambition. Appointed Postmaster General in 1903, he applied his ponderous brain to the telephone system and subsequently nationalized it, the wisdom of which step has been disputed ever since...
...Morganatic marriage. But not this time. There is a girl, to be sure. She is practically seduced, to start the plot. And by the prince, too, who is promptly murdered. The rest of the play is a detective story with Lionel Atwill as the detective in gold lace. Mr. Atwill strutted a good deal...
...James Stillman, silent president of the National City Bank of New York, tranquil friend of a few intimates speaks: "[During the Gold Panic of 1894 the U. S. Treasury begged [J. P.] Morgan for 50 millions, which he refused, thundering 'Impossible!' Then they came to me and I went 'round to see what I could do: He was greatly upset and overcharged, nearly wept, put his head in his hands and cried: 'They expect the impossible!' So I calmed him down and told him to give me an hour and by that time I cabled...