Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Street corner, denizens of the Cafe Mozart have been treated to three serious accidents with the last month and countless near misses. Each driver approaching the intersection claims right of way with a cavalier horn blast. Occupants of the apartments above the Gold Coast have complained to the City about the squeals of brakes and tires which often punctuate the night hours...
Perhaps Mr. Moss, in his whimsical way, is kidding. Perhaps he is really interested less in reality and illusion than in money, which most of his characters spend their time discussing. (His heroine is the richest woman in the world, a sharp old cookie in gold slacks, who makes her associates jump through all sorts of hoops in hopes of getting their hands on some of her money.) But Mr. Moss has little of interest to say about money, unless it be that money is very important to people, and that they talk about it a lot. Because the play...
...first time in its 59-year history, the National Institute of Social Sciences awarded one man a second gold medal, last week hailed 84-year-old ex-President Herbert Hoover, as it had in 1918, for "distinguished service to humanity."*Cracked a proud, beaming Hoover: "Your presentation after this 40-year interval should be construed by those who come after me as a certificate of the propriety of my conduct when on this earth...
...anywhere else. Said he: "I wouldn't accept a permanent job if they offered it on a golden plate lined with platinum, uranium and cobalt. I want to let them sleep quietly, all those conductors in America with the Fafnir and Fasolt mentality, those dragons that worship gold...
...Benin bronzes, a footstool in the shape of a kneeling woman, a dog-shaped bowl, and African, American Indian and South Sea Island idols by the score comprised a wild little dream world within the Fine Arts' staid galleries of European pictures. Most exciting finds were the small gold ornaments from pre-Columbian