Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind a high semicircular counter-like table, a dozen Republicans have sat long and heavily discussing these articles. Behind them hung a rich red curtain, imperially crowned with great loops of gold. Before them was a spacious oblong room with white marble columns, a high vaulted ceiling, huge full-length windows. Outside heavy double doors, securely locked, depended a small sign, bearing the gilt lettering: "Executive Session." A blackamoor has lounged at the entrance to enforce the sign. The sitters within were Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives, their heads together on the forthcoming...
...from this flourishing city in the Yellow Sea vamoosed its rightful defender, General Liu Chen-nien; and victoriously in marched dread Marshal Chang Tsung-chang (TIME, March 7, 1927). Within an hour Chefoo's terrified Chinese Chamber of Commerce had presented the marshal with $100,000 spot cash gold, in return for his promise not to issue his favorite order, "Loot...
...animal it is. It has arrived in The Bronx, northernmost borough of New York. A day or two later it is quartered in a huge new coliseum. The crowd has gathered. The boys are selling pink drink. There is a hush. Alfred Emanuel Smith mounts a chair, blows a gold whistle. All the men and women who have piled off the train in the dusk parade, but are now transformed. They wear gay colors and spangles. They mince and prance and stick out their bosoms. The acrobats look flatfooted, the equestrians are bowlegged, the clowns act drunk...
Maria Jeritza, darling of Vienna, wanted a gold-brocaded dressing-room. At her own expense she ordered one at the Vienna Staatsoper. Last week, arrived at Vienna, she found no gold dressing-room, fell sick. Performances were postponed. The press blamed not the sickness but the unfinished dressing-room. Decorators were hurriedly corralled. Jeritza improved...
Before the entertainment a large dinner is being planned in their honor, and there will be a dance following the performance, music for which will be furnished by the Gold Coast Orchestra, led by B. D. Hanighen...