Golden West Financial was the second largest savings and loan in the United States, operating branches under the name of World Savings Bank.
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“In books one finds golden mansions and women as beautiful as jewels.”
—Chinese proverb.
“We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast,
When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
And a man with his back to the East.”
—Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
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—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)