Word: gold
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play represents a day's business, one customer following another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes to learn how to grow rich at his trade. Sir Epicure is trapped by the hope of obtaining the philosopher's stone, which turns metals to gold. Tribulation seeks to enrich his church. Dame Pliant is brought by her brother Kastril to get a titled husband. Each is rapidly and cleverly fleeced, and the dialogue is full of the jargon of alchemy. Finally Lovewit returns and learns from the neighbors the strange doings at his house. Jeremy denies...
...chair will be massive in its proportions, and of quartered oak stained to match the other furniture in the Living Room. The arms and legs are to be handsomely carved and finished with a touch of dull gold. Under the seat there will be decorations of scroll work, and on the seat itself a heavy tufted crimson cushion. The back of the chair will be high with ornamental carvings and embossed work; near the top the words "Ex Dono Class of 1903" are to be inscribed. Resting on the top of the back will be scroll work supporting the shield...
Regular A. A. U. championship medals will be given in championship events, and solid gold, silver and bronze medals for first, second and third places in all handicap events, and in relays where three or more teams are entered. Solid gold medals will be given to winners in relays where there are two entries. A board track of ten laps to the mile will be used...
...awarded to men who win positions in the first group and who have never before received a detur. They are books purchased with the income of a fund left by Edward Hopkins, who was born in 1600. The books are bound in red leather and are stamped in gold with the seal of the University...
Seven men may be entered for a team, but only the first four to finish on each team will qualify for places. Each place will count as many points as the actual position of the man in finishing, and the team having the smallest total will win the meet. Gold medals will be given to the men on the winning team, and other prizes to the members of the teams taking second and third places...