Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State Show. After three hours, a gorgeous group of peers, officers and diplomats stood in the white and gold throne room of Buckingham Palace, facing two massive folding doors. Calm Helen Wills and 349 other debutantes waited in an adjoining drawing room, shepherded by black, silk-stockinged Gentlemen Ushers with long white wands...
Suddenly, behind blue hydrangeas, the band of the Irish Guards struck up "God Save the Queen." The folding doors opened, disclosed the broad gold-laced backs of the court chamberlain and court steward, bowing low before Majesty. Chamberlain and steward backed into the room. Entered the Queen of England, ablaze with diamonds, wearing a "white and gold gown with an overdress of changeable pastel shades," as fashion technicians described it. Holding her firmly by the hand was scarlet-coated Edward of Wales, his uniform collar embroidered with the wild onion of the Welsh Guards. Prince Edward led his mother...
...unemployed to work on a great state program of road building and other public works. "We mobilized for war, let us mobilize for prosperity!" reads the cover of the Orange Book. Above is a cut showing a huge, smiling Lloyd George, arms outstretched in a gesture suggestive of showering gold-pieces upon gladsome, marching files of tiny soldiers and workmen...
Long-jawed Alfonso XIII of Spain listened last week in Seville, amid an imposing group of gold-braided notables, to a high-sounding address by Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The dictator gesticulated, emphasized, smiled, scowled, pointed. To foreign ears it would have sounded like a declaration indeed, perhaps of grave warning, perhaps defiance. What the dictator was leading up to, however, was only this...
...York Evening World, a Pulitzer paper, went the "most meritorious public service" prize, a $500 gold medal, for combating civic graft...