Word: golds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hundred Gold Pounds. The story of George Magalios illustrates the point. George, who lived on the outskirts of Karditsa, was a big, handsome man, still dark-haired and active for his years. He had worked hard all his life, and from his savings bought a rare farm possession for Greece, a tractor-drawn combine. With it he had made enough money to educate his eldest son Anastasios, 22, and to build up respectable dowries for his four pretty daughters...
...months ago, letters began appearing under George's door at night. The first said: "You will pay 100 gold pounds to the Democratic [Communist] Army." George threw the letter in the fireplace. Soon the second arrived. "If you don't pay you'll have a difficult time." When that was ignored, a third threatened: "If not paid immediately we will have your head -you'll be slaughtered in the marketplace like a steer...
Frank Lloyd Wright, venerable panjandrum of modern U.S. architecture, finally (at 79) got grudging recognition from the august American Institute of Architects (of which he is not a member): their 16th Gold Medal Award in 42 years. Apparently, it had not been unanimous. Blurted the Westchester (N.Y.) chapter: "His achievements do not entitle him to join the company of such men as McKim [Boston Public Library], Post [Wisconsin State Capitol], Bacon [Lincoln Memorial], Goodhue [Nebraska State Capitol], Cret [Washington's Federal Reserve Building], and Sullivan [Chicago's Stock Exchange...
...means of support, passed through Manhattan bound for Britain, Switzerland and, possibly, marriage. Readers of the tabloid New York Daily News choked on their gum when they read that Miss Hayworth looked "as pale and haggard as though she had walked all the way from Hollywood [to meet her] gold-plated boy friend from mystic India." She scurried aboard the liner Britannic, the Daily News went on, over a gangplank "ordinarily used, dock workers said, to take bodies aboard, or to carry off the ship's refuse...
Inside, when Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, dressed in white and gold brocade, walked onstage and took her place in the curve of the piano, the jampacked audience rose to its feet and cheered her for a full minute. As she left the stage after her fourth group of songs, she tripped and fell. The audience rose again in a hush that was loud with sympathy. They cheered again when she had finished singing her program of Beethoven, Schubert and Grieg...