Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor's immediate surroundings were the spacious gold-and-red apartments of the Hotel Crillon's prize suite, where President Wilson, General Pershing and the like had lodged before him. With twelve servants at his beck, the Mayor arrayed himself afresh and received newsgatherers. They noted a small rotundity under his natty waistcoat. He admitted his receptions had been bounteous. "If this keeps up much longer," he said, "I shall have to finish my vacation in a hospital. ... I will soon be developed enough around the middle to qualify for an alderman. . . . When I get my feet under my desk...
...thousand bouncing, snatching girls battled grimly last week on Manhattan playgrounds for a gold medal. They battled with small rubber balls and tiny iron "jacks."- Under the fatherly eye of the New York World, which was also cocked toward circulation, metropolitan girlhood was summoned to a tournament for the jacks championship of the city. Some squatted, some kneeled, some sat tailor-fashion in the dust. Each one spread her ten jacks, bounced her rubber ball and snatched up one jack, caught her ball, bounced her ball, snatched up another, a third, until she had ten; again she spread (technical term...
...eggs. Into the squat structures poured more men with monocles than ever before gathered in one place in the U. S. Many of them wore suede shoes; blue jackets with brass buttons, and nearly all of them soft grey felt hats. With them their ladies, gay in scarlet and gold, green and white. The squat structures were nearly saturated with rich men, sportsmen, society men and their ladies, when out on the magic carpet the witch- ery which had drawn them from across the world began. Polo ponies, 115, led by bright-turbaned Indians and blue bloused U. S. grooms...
...Bank of France, for some of the amount was only canceled against new conversion bonds subscribed by the French public, which still remain a governmental liability. However, the position of the Bank, which last year was in sore straits, is much improved; for, meantime it has increased its gold reserves to $800,000,000 and holds nearly $1,000,000,000 in foreign currencies, which represents credit transactions made possible by the repatriation of French capital-a sign that confidence has returned to stay...
...darkest exhibit was Mol-lienisia slenops from Louisiana, a two-inch blob of midnight. The brighest was Platypoecilus rubra from the West Indies, deep-burning vermilion and red gold...