Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York and Jersey Cities formally opened the 9,250-ft. Holland vehicular tunnel connecting them under the Hudson River (TiME, Aug. 30, 1926). Aboard the yacht Mayflower, midstream in the Potomac, the President pressed the same gold telegraph key which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
...normally equipped of evenings, the customers saw dirt. Soft dirt where hapless riders might tumble unhurt. In the middle of the dirt they saw suave gentlemen in cutaways (afternoons) and evening clothes; judges of horses. Also "Dutch" White, professional ringmaster of many a horseshow, resplendent in a scarlet & gold suit...
...taken, and appear on the stage until the demand, disgusted with such easy prey, turns to more elusive subjects such as the reticent Mr. Coolidge or the secretive government of Rumania. With her contract in vaudeville finished, as well as her connections with movies, beauty clays, and other such gold mines, Miss Elder may retire, as safe from the headlines as the pilot who flew her plane across the ocean...
...notice it. Perhaps the most tragic of its implications is the disappearance of the bald-headed row. Many a chorus girl's heart will be broken at the disappearance of the mirrors that served for so many years. But the discovery has other advantages than those of beauty. The gold springs not only enable the hair to stand on end, but also to quiver. The mind becomes the treasure house of the soul in a literal sense. A certain service is thereby done the novelist, for it is now plausible that the hero, losing his beloved to a millionaire rival...
...progress toward the first of these objectives has been slow, a beauty expert of New York has already achieved the second. The fruit of eighteen years study is a process revealed on Wednesday by which he can anchor any number of hairs to the scalp by means of tiny gold springs...