Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...green, yellow, pink and deep red, for which the world has previously depended chiefly upon mines in Hungary, Mexico, Honduras, Australia. Geologists reported that the stones had been formed after a petrified forest was prehistorically inundated by volcanic ash and lava. Made bold by successful recent raids on Nevada gold mines, bandits broke into a store of the gems laid away by prospectors, but soon found their precious loot turned to worthless dross in their hands. Softer than most gems, opals must be aged slowly in clay to permit their water to evaporate. Dried too fast, they crack and disintegrate...
...found experienced Realtor W. Bourke Harmon stating that only the first two stories of buildings, however tall, produced revenue; the stories above, however many, do well to pay taxes and interest on the investment. Early Manhattan skyscrapers-the first Equitable Building (seven stories, 1869, with its "vertical railroad"), the gold-domed Park Row Building, the 21-story Flatiron Building, the 41-story Singer Building (1907) and finally that 60-story marvel that dwarfed everything save the imagination of the man who thought of selling things for five and ten cents-all these paid for themselves in advertising value. For later...
...Where can I get gold for all this currency of the Confederate States of America?" was his first question. But Jacob Dreicer had another recourse for livelihood. On the inside of his innermost shirt he had sewed little velvet sacks, and each little velvet sack held a pearl. He knew pearls and emeralds, rubies and sapphires. In a way he knew diamonds too, but he did not like them, least of all when he saw them wired on the stomacher of the Manhattan dame of a Civil War profiteer. And he did love pearls; liked to caress them against...
...Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage. As a matter of principle, Carrie at length enters objection, threatens exposure; Babe submits; Carrie, principle gained, withdraws objection. One scene stages the home-watched coffin of Father Ned, for realistic...
...clock tonight, the Instrumental Clubs will give a concert at the Harvard Club of Boston. The Gold Coast Orchestra, the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, and the Vocal Club, comprising the organization, will take part...