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Word: golds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Headmaster Alfred Ernest Stearns of Andover presented President and Mrs. Coolidge with gold medals in commemoration of the occasion, in the presence of Educators Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth, Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, James Rowland Angell of Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Andover | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...citizen and his wife were looking at a photograph of Miss Anne Morgan, 55, idolized daughter of the late John Pierpont Morgan and sister of Banker John Pierpont Morgan, 60, in an advertisement in a morning newspaper. Miss Morgan was publicly endorsing Old Gold ("Not a cough in a carload") cigarets; that is, she had put her signature to a statement alleging that she had taken the blindfold test, smoked four brands of cigarets and found that "the smoothness" of one cigaret was "so obvious." That cigaret turned out to be Old Gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Morgan's Old Gold | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Investigations revealed that Miss Morgan is, by no means, penniless and that her brother is, by no means, an unwise investor. The answer is that Miss Morgan probably gave the money she received from Old Gold to charity. Citizens did indeed think of that, but were still mystified. If Miss Morgan had been hard-pressed for another $1,000 for her pet charity, would not Banker Morgan, impeccable, gladly have accommodated her? There was only one other explanation: Miss Morgan was upsetting Morgan tradition by positively getting to like publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Morgan's Old Gold | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...been reported that blindfolded endorsers of Old Gold cigarets receive $1,000 for their pains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Morgan's Old Gold | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...rest of the field stretched out for a sixteenth of a mile to Strolling Player who ran last. When Reigh Count had had the usual horse shoe of American beauties hung about his neck and Chick Lang had been cheered by the crowd, Mrs. Hertz took home the usual gold plate worth seven thousand dollars and a check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Derby | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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