Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sits and knits, chatting with a friend or two in her lovely upstairs sitting-room with the view where the glorious Washington Monument pierces the blue sky and the green shores of Virginia rise beyond the Potomac, or whether she stands in a gown of state of white-and-gold brocade, about to receive some royal visitor, the present mistress of the White House is always a real person-just as real, just as sincere, just as easily understandable, as was tiny Grace Goodhue in Vermont or older Grace Goodhue of the Burlington [Vt.] High School...
...whipped Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight boxing championship. "My boy won," she said. "He's an angel, and so good looking. . . . I wouldn't mind a bit being engaged to that great big, handsome, blond boy. I saw him in Miami last winter and gave him a gold medal of the Blessed Virgin, and they tell me he carried it with him in the fight...
Then they memorialized the foundation of the Philosophical Faculty, presenting President Frank J. Goodnow with a parchment illuminated in gold and blue showing how highly they esteemed him. Professor L. Levy-Bruhl of the philosophical faculty of the Sorbonne was on the program to discuss "Research As It Is Today...
...charge of sensationalism must remain absurd. Perhaps the protests of upperclassmen may be explained by resentment at any tentative attempt to invest the Freshman Dormitories with those attributes which have for so long been the monopoly of the Gold Coast. But anyone who finds sensationalism in the mild comment of the reports in question betrays a purposeful search that does him more discredit than the reports could do to any Freshman...
...Robins started working at the age of ten on a Florida farm; later he spent several years training himself for the bar. After practicing for several years in San Francisco, he embarked on the Klondike gold rush, from which he returned financially independent for life...