Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be no change in the copper coins: farthings (half a cent), halfpennies (ha'pennies, one cent), pennies (two cents)-nor in the gold coins: half-sovereigns (worth about $2.40) and sovereigns ("quids" or even "Jimmie o'Goblins"), now generally in circulation...
...first all-Negro musical comedy, Shuffle Along. Her last triumph was Florence Mills & Her Blackbirds (London, 1927). Said she before death: "I've not begun to be what I was meant to be." At the largest funeral ever known to Harlem, she lay in a $10,000 copper coffin. Six hundred chorus voices sang Negro spirituals to the accompaniment of 200 musicians...
Heating Appliances. Copper wire carries electric energy with very little wastage. A wire made of chromium-nickel or similar alloys, on the other hand, resists the passage of electricity and gets hot. Upon this fact were created the many heating devices displayed at the show: Flat Irons Hot Pads Manglers Toasters Grills Percolators Stoves Waffle Iron- Heaters Curling Irons Radiators Sterilizers and a new device for pressing trousers...
...teaching among Indians, declared Widow Simmons irresponsible, crazy, hallucinated. So did U. S. Senator William H. King of Utah, who was surprised to hear that Mrs. Simmons, whom he had never met, would rather have "gotten" him than Judge Johnson for assistance she fancied he had rendered the Utah Copper...
Then began a veritable orgy of sightseeing. Copper-colored cadets were motored here and there to gaze in awe at skyscrapers; to the cinema, to a baseball match, to interminable feasts and receptions. Nine days they stayed, then went their...