Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...represents the cruicified Christ; at the foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched in a diaper pattern. The design of the figures is admirably worked out in a limited range of colors...
...ostrich plumes upon long poles. His garment was white of a creamy richness, but lis robe was all bloodred. On his breast blazed the Crux Pectorale, a great cross of diamonds. And above the shapely, bespectacled head of Pope Pius XI towered the holy apostolic tiara of pure, massy gold...
...gold racquets bat which proclaims a man amateur racquets champion of the land has been handed back and forth between Clarence C. Pell and Stanley G. Mortimer ever since 1914. Last week, at the Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo, N. Y., Mr. Mortimer, who had the bat last year, had to admit that Mr. Pell's traditionally terrific service was more terrific than ever. To Mr. Pell went match, bat and title...
...Banking & Currency Committee, announced that at the next session of Congress his committee proposed to go into Federal Reserve discounts, brokers' loans, investment trusts and mergers. Representative Loring Black, a smart sensationalist, attacked the Reserve Board for alleged connivance with Great Britain. He argued that if England needed gold it ought not induce the Federal Reserve to interfere with U. S. prosperity by hampering Wall Street but should sell to the U. S. some of its island possessions off the Atlantic Coast, which possessions are naval bases that threaten U. S. security. Representative Garner, ranking Democrat on the Ways...
Some of the laborers pointed to gold-lettered window announcements which proclaimed that City Trust Co. was a depository of the U. S. government, of the state and city of New York. Some of the laborers thought that therefore the U. S., the state, and the city were guaranteeing deposits. Others, less naïve, were selling their bankbooks at 50 cents on the dollar...