Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Lausanne Treaty was signed last year (TIME, Aug. 6) there were many things left unsettled, and one of them was the Mosul question.* In the palace of the Turkish Admiralty on the Golden Horn, representatives of Britain, France and Turkey assembled to settle the thorny problem of Mosul. After much wrangling the conference broke up, a settlement having been impossible. Britain will take the matter before the League, but at present the Turks protest against such action...
...presence of the Negro in the North as elsewhere created "a real or an imaginary problem which is the severest test of the worth and practicability of Christianity." He added that "to protect a credulous, inexperienced voter from the avarice and selfishness of 'designing men, is the golden opportunity and imperative duty of humanity-loving, God-fearing...
Then the "Gold Banders" launched into von Suppe's overture, Light Cavalry. And Stokowski began to get what he wanted. "I wanted the tone-color to sound like gold," he explained to the audience. "I wanted the band to look like gold?the golden, brazen look of sunlight...
Prizes. This year marked the 50th (Golden Jubilee) anniversary of Kentucky Derby. The purse was $52,775. Second was $6,000; third, $3,000; fourth, $1,000. In addition, a gold cup was given to the owner of the winner and to the winning jockey went the customary pair of gold spurs. Black Gold's trainer received a gold stop watch. The weight carried by the horses was 126 pounds. The event was open only to three-year-olds. Glide, the only fill entered for the race was withdrawn the night before. There were 19 colts competing. Black Gold paid...
Friday afternoons, when school-boys and girls wiped off their slates and listened to faltering eulogies on Washington and Lincoln, are still vivid memories to many of the present generation; but the golden traditions which were then pleasantly learned have withstood the ravages of time little better than the familiar red schoolhouse. Modern historians have scorned to repeat the charming stories of Pocahontas rescue and the cherry tree incident, and have instead dug up English graveyards to find the skeleton of the Indian girl and searched through old jockets to discover whether or not Washington's hair was really...