Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be no change in the copper coins: farthings (half a cent), halfpennies (ha'pennies, one cent), pennies (two cents)-nor in the gold coins: half-sovereigns (worth about $2.40) and sovereigns ("quids" or even "Jimmie o'Goblins"), now generally in circulation...
...Rockefeller McCormick clasped her ancestral necklace of giant emeralds. Mrs. Samuel Insull donned a new black chiffon, all spangled with gold. John McCormack buttoned himself into a new dress shirt. Photographers gave their flashlight cameras a final inspection. Such things were important last week to the 3,500 Chicagoans who crowded the Auditorium Theatre for the opening of the Chicago Opera's 17th season. For some ten million others* the second act of Verdi's Traviata was the event of the evening. (Announcement: for the next twelve successive Thursday evenings the Chicago Opera will broadcast...
...Dance Selections Gold Coast Orchestra...
...Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs, assisted by the Pierian Sodality, the Harvard Instrumental Clubs, and the Gold Coast Orchestra, will give a joint concert in Sanders Theatre next Friday night at 8.45 o'clock. The program will be completed in time for Friday night dances before the Yale football game...
Married. Miss Mary MacLennan, daughter of Frank P. MacLennan, editor & publisher of the Topeka State-Journal; to one James A. Farrell* of New York; in Topeka, Kan. In 1897 Editor MacLennan installed a new press on which was inscribed "Mary" in gold letters. On Oct. 29, 1927, the first press was succeeded by "Mary the Third." Said the State-Journal: "So it's good-bye to 'Mary the First,' and 'how do you do' to 'Mary the Third...