Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy (ex-officio title conferred by King Henry IV), arrived on the Leviathan, which flew her Admiral's flag. The Mayor, who is the first woman to hold the position, wore the scarlet mink-trimmed robe of her office, a tricornered black beaver hat, an official 16th-Century gold chain. She was accompanied by her daughter, honorary Mayoress, and was suffering from a swollen nose, the result of a slip on the ship's deck. After a one-week tour of the U. S., they returned on the Leviathan...
...later he was presented with that very object by M. Léon Meyer, Mayor of Havre. It was a gold pen, nearly a foot long, a half inch in diameter, surmounted by a turquoise, and made by famed Jeweler André Falize of Paris. Visitor Kellogg accepted it graciously, found it heavy, noticed his initials engraved upon it, and read the inscription on its green leather case: Si Vis Pacem Par Pacem (If you wish for Peace, prepare for Peace...
...Better than his fellow archers at toxophily was W. H. Palmer of Wayne Pa., whose points gave him the championship. Dr. E. K. Roberts of Ventura, Calif., was second; A. W. Lambert, of the St. Louis Listerine clan was third. For the first time in national tournament history, six golds were made at 40 yards. A gold is the innermost circle of the target, counts nine points in scoring. The target consists of a central disc, 9.6 inches in diameter, four concentric rings each 4.8 inches wide, painted respectively from within out, gold, nine points; red, seven; blue, five; black...
...Funeralizing of Crickneck" is broad comedy which might have any superstitious community for setting, but "Napoleon Crossing the Rockies" is unique. A railroad representative tries to bully two old folks to sell their property. Steadfast as the Napoleon of their ditty they refuse this stranger's heap of gold, but sell to a suave acquaintance who gives the old woman a chain of gaudy beads, and the old man new strings for his fiddle...
Died. David Proskey, 75, famed collector & numismatist, after a brief illness; in North Caldwell, N. J. In the Proskey collection is a Greek gold drachma, one of four known specimens of what is said to be the first coin ever minted (about 700 B. C.). A duplicate in the J. P. Morgan collection is valued...