Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world changed color and shape for the stupefied Masons. To their house in the slums of South Philadelphia rushed well-wishers, curiosity-seekers, oil-well and gold-mine promoters. Police had to rope off their street. A man in Liberia wanted them to finance a bus line from Monrovia to the jungle. "All I ever wanted was my own home," Pearl shakily said...
Included in the discussion will be a study of the effects of war on international balance of payments, on the distribution of gold and on commercial policy; repercussions on agriculture; methods of finance in the war and post-war periods; effects of war upon the distribution of income and wealth; trade unionism, money and real wages and employment in war times; and, finally, transition to peace...
Glittering in a gold-sequined gown, her hair swept up, her feet in spun-glass slippers, Marva Trotter Louis, wife of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, officiated at the coronation of St. Louis' Negro society king and queen. Introduced as "leader of Chicago society . . . America's premier lady of fashion," Mrs. Louis was accompanied by a local physician, who informed all, "I am a personal friend of Joe Louis." Interviewed by newshawks, Mrs. Louis said of her husband: "He never gets rowdy in the home. I sure wish I had his poise and calm...
...music-charmed announcer whose cultured, genuflecting voice seems to his public to come straight from NBC's artistic soul. Radio listeners hear a tremolo of anticipation when Milton Cross's bated, bass-viol voice tells them: "The house lights are being dimmed. In a moment the great gold curtain will...
...Sample: When Bad Girl Dietrich slips some gold coins into her bosom, says Allen Jenkins: "Thar's gold in them thar hills." Last week the Hays office pounced on this gag after the picture's release, ordered it deleted...