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...magazine was The Golden Book, was published by the Review of Reviews Corporation. An editorial note explained: "The original Libra D'Oro, the Golden Book of Venice, was the official list of the Venetian nobility, who alone could vote or hold office in that remarkable republic of aristocrats." This Golden Book, then, was for a literary aristocracy, "not of birth, but of performance." It was a new monthly anthology of classic fiction, the sort of volume you might make up unconsciously by rummaging during a month of evenings among the master tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry...
...Court is one of the most glorious monuments to American wealth. Its marble Renaissance doorway opens to the public a few days each year. Virtually all of the stones in the structure were brought from Venice. Around the central court are balconies brought from the Ca' d'Oro, the most beautiful Gothic palace on the Grand Canal. The pavement is an ancient Roman one. Arab, Greek, Roman, Gothic and Renaissance sculpture fills the niches, flanks, the broad.stair. Off the adjoining corridor is a chapel from a monastery. The rooms are crowded with many world-famed paintings, decorated with...
...group-recruited from the small town of El Oro, state of Durango-had sworn to avenge losses inflicted on their families by Villa when he captured El Oro. They rented a building in Parras, from which they watched and waited for Villa for months. Once his life was saved by some school children who were in the line of fire, but on July 16 the chance came and Villa was killed...
...Geological Conference. Amygdules, Pseudamygdules, and Miarolitic Cavities," by Professor A. C. Lane; "Some Resemblances between the Comstock, Goldfield, and El Oro Lodes," by Mr. Augustus Locke, in Mineralogical Lecture Room of the University Museum...
...ORO ! Oro ! Oro ! Oro...