Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deadwood, S. Dak., 300 strong men allowed their beards to grow long and bushy, for President Coolidge was coming to town. They wanted him to see Deadwood as it looked in the days of the gold rush, following 1876, when "Wild Bill" Hickock, "Deadwood Dick" and "Calamity Jane" were kicking up dust in its streets. A pageant was staged for President Coolidge, who gladly shook the wrinkled hand of aged "Deadwood Dick...
...Custer, President and Mrs. Coolidge again tried their hands at gold-panning. Fortunate, they succeeded in getting enough gold to make a ten-dollar gold piece. Diplomatic, the good people of Custer had previously "loaded" the "dirt" so that the gold acquired by the distinguished visitors might not be altogether dependent upon the bounty of nature...
Last week, alumni and friends of Rollins College met for dinner at the Machinery Club, Manhattan. At their head was Rex Beach, another gentleman who has turned his two-fisted, eminently practical attention to things so various as gold-digging in Alaska and writing popular fiction in the U. S. Mr. Beach lately acquired large tracts of rich black soil near winter Park, Fla. He studied at Rollins College from 1891 to 1896 and is president and guiding spirit of Rollins alumni...
...Monday night recently, the guard assigned to the miniature portraits room of the Metropolitan took sick, was sent home to recover. The next morning, it was discovered that a glass case had been jimmied, that six priceless portraits painted on ivory framed with diamond-studded gold had been niched. As usual, detectives were perplexed as to the motive of the crime. If the sneaks had coveted the miniatures for their $10,000 ivory, gold and diamond value, a search might profitably be conducted through the pawnshops. If the infinitely more valuable artistic qualities had been coveted, it must have been...
...paid 30,000 gold scudi (about $30,000) for his appointment as chancellor. Pope Pius VII (1800-23) reformed the office when Napoleon obviated the need for papal armies...