Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self-confidence unlimited, Fascist Starace earned the nickname "Pantherman" by feats of physique-jumping a horse over a car, pole vaulting, diving over parallel bars, plunging through rings of fire. In his gaudy office, where he is protected by an always-loaded, pearl-handled revolver and by a solid gold Virgin, he has thought up many a mystic fetish, many a fiendish thuggery. He abolished the handshake in Italy. He designed the black Fascist uniform. He is generally supposed to have been one of the inventors of the castor-oil technique of punishing political recalcitrants. And he has been...
...plus 350 recruits and 200 gendarmes) paraded in review in its new khaki uniforms, with helmets like the old Austrian Army. Said its commander: "This is quite a change from our old army in lollipop uniforms." The pre-World War uniform was sky-blue, wasp-waisted, gold-buttoned, with gold band on a high-crowned pillbox...
From a censer swung by a thurifer, the sweet smoke of incense coiled heavily into the church. In a chasuble of blue and gold, the church's Pastor Arthur Carl Piepkorn stood at the epistle side of the altar. At the gospel side, flanked by taper bearers and the thurifer, Pastor Robert Mohrhardt chanted: "Make not My Father's house an house of merchandise...
Johnny Felmeth scored for the Bellboys in the second period after Dick Lewis had set up a score by intercepting a Gold Coaster pass and running the ball back 40 yards to the six yard line. Folmoth, star kicker as well as runner, scored on an off-tackle slant...
Lowell outplayed Adams throughout the game, but was held in the clinches by a stubborn Gold Coaster defense which stopped the Bellboy runners time and again behind the line of scrimmage...