Word: goldsmithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the ulcer-treating diet of crackers & milk is listed as a specialty of the house. One eating place proudly lists six different combinations: a choice of sal tines or graham crackers with milk, half & half, or cream. At least one "they" expert was no longer operating: Frederick N. Goldsmith, who thought the comic strips disclosed what "they" were buying & selling and who peddled the tips in his market letter, has been banned from the street by New York State. ' The New York Times index of 50 stocks last reek hit 148.21, only a shade under its 1946 high...
Lowell's first inning run, scored by John Goldsmith, was tied in the last of the first by three Adams singles. The Bellboys went into a three-run lead in the third on a double by Goldsmith and a triple by Frank Lionette...
...title essay, "The Captain's Death Bed," gives a loss satisfying portrait. Captain Marryat, British seadog, author, and excoriator of the United States (in six volumes), does not succeed like Goldsmith, though the description of him is sprightly and interesting...
...large body of the essays in this volume could be loosely called literary biography. These are brief and charming sketches, some of famous men, Conrad, Hardy, Oliver Goldsmith, and some of obscure figures, known only through a terse diary or a packet of family letters. In all of them, Virginia Woolf exercises her talent of character-drawing. She uses with extraordinary deftness little details about her subjects' lives and periods; her essays sparkle even when the man is very dull...
...page piece on Oliver Goldsmith is the best portrait: in the brief space, one gets a full idea of the scholar with "ugly body and stumbling tongue," who "had only to write and he was among the angels, speaking with a silver tongue in a world where all is ordered, rational, and serene...