Word: golds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan. Before the Senators arrived, there strode into the room a figure in blue serge and buttoned shoes, carrying a tan topcoat. The figure wore an almost white fedora hat instead of its traditional brown derby that was instantly recognizable, by the flash of gold in the smile, the jaunty salute to the newsgatherers, as Candidate Smith. When the Committee entered, this Candidate, minus fedora and topcoat, put his thumbs in his waistcoat and tilted back in the witness chair with his cigar at a happy angle. The front feet of the chair turned...
Dwarfed only by the Divine Presence, stood His Majesty, George V. King and Emperor, with two sturdy pages to support his long crimson and white train. At one side of the Altar sat Her Majesty, Mary, Queen and Empress, clad in a long, shimmering cloak of gold tissue with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve...
...Manhattan, next week, Thomas Alva Edison will receive the Gold Medal for Science from the Society of Arts and Sciences...
...twice, Carmen once, Tannhauser once. Contrary to their polite custom of appearing at only one performance in an operatic series, the King and Queen of Denmark, dressed in their bravest regalia, sat in their box every time Jeritza sang. The King gave the singer a decoration encased in a gold medallion and asked her to attend an intimate family party at the palace after her first performance. This Mme. von Popper did with dignity and delight...
Today, the figures have changed. The man, approaching his Sgth birthday (July 8), does not record them or administer them, but he knows what they are. No doubt, he has often been asked, by inquisitive reporters, how many times he is worth his weight in gold. This can be computed roughly...