Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow gold open face pocket watch, crystal broken, movement No. 29716177, case No. 7875127, inscribed inside of case Sam Talmadge from Mother June 1927," with yellow woven chain attached, and gold fraternity pin marked A. U. A. 1902, Harvard, marked S. M. Talmadge 1934, and the reverse end of the chain a steel tape measure...
...years as a zealous alumna, clubwoman and W. C. T. Unionist, Martha Ijams had rarely been so misunderstood. When she read the White House interpretation, she tossed her blonde hair (which she wears in a modified Gibson Girl coiffure), determined to make her snubs crystal clear. Back to Washington over the press wires went her answer: "I have nothing but contempt for [Mrs. Roosevelt]. She is as presumptuous as usual in her assumption as to what I intended or did not intend relative to Miss Perkins. Why should I answer her? Nothing she ever says is worth answering. The obvious...
Upminister workmen saw the Sisters du Bois leap from Pilot Kirton's plane. Hands clasped together, they fell 4,000 ft., landed in a cabbage patch. Jane's wristwatch, its crystal unbroken, still ticked near her corpse...
...form or another is almost sure to be the Banking Act of 1935. Most significant banking measure since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the bill was so technical that no one except a banking expert could hope to understand it in detail. Nevertheless, its objective was crystal clear-unchallenged Federal control of the nation's currency and credit. It did not establish a central bank such as money-fanatics like Senator Elmer Thomas and Father Coughlin have been yammering for. But if the bill is enacted in anything like its present form, the U. S. banking system will...
...decide to have dinner at the Willard in the crystal room. Here you are really in the halls of history. Gone is the romance and the glory and the prominent personages. You journey through Peacock Alley, pass women from the West who think they are in style; and take a seat in the middle of the Alley. Your interest is aroused by three old codgers (probably ex-Congressmen) talking very loudly--perhaps all are a bit deal--on an adjacent couch. You hear them, as I have sigh and reminisce of the days of Ariemus Ward and James Whitcomb Riley...