Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neat, "platinum-blond" Principal Lester Dix, who produces more than 100 tons of fancy tomatoes each year on his farm at Princess Anne, Md., was not a bit flustered last week by the guinea pigs' criticisms of Lincoln School. He was pleased "that our friends do not hesitate to tell us about our worst faults." And Alumnus-Teacher Tom Prideaux explained: "Progressive teaching is popularly suspect. It is a convenient scapegoat. Further, many students in new schools like Lincoln are recruited from families with a talent for criticism. They have rebellion in their bones...
...second part of the long list of artists was made up of more big apple dancing by the torrid platinum blondes, and talks by Joe Cashman of the Boston American who spoke about the future of the Red Sox and the Bees, contrasted by Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck who did not charm the audience by relating his adventures with snakes and other wild beasts in the jungles he has conquered...
Radiant in all her buxom splendor, brimming over with her famous "sex personality," platinum-haired Mae West surged into Boston yesterday and at the CRIMSON'S invitation expressed her desire to see Harvard as it really...
...good. The story is very far-fetched, and suffers from an insipid happy ending; but Sigmund Romberg's excellent music, sung as only Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy can sing, together with a good supporting cast and the rich browns and delicate blues of the sepia-platinum photography, make the picture entirely worthy of its Easter-weekend billing...
...Crammed with 4,000-foot mountain chains, this wilderness has only three connections with civilization-a highway up the coast and 50 miles inland a parallel highway and Southern Pacific R. R. line. Between are said to lie rich deposits of chrome, copper, gold, iron, coal, limestone and platinum beneath an evergreen blanket of several billion feet of virgin timber. To exploit this domain has been a local dream for 50 years but only in the last three has exploitation actually begun, and that almost solely through the efforts of a onetime hunter of dinosaur eggs named Gilbert Elledy Gable...