Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death but a metal cap Like the lid on a soup tureen...
...German prosperity is now general and increasing. Business failures are less numerous by half than in 1913. Unemployment has been reduced to 965,000 and is no longer a serious problem. Production is high in the coal, metal, textile and other key industries. The currency of the Republic is absolutely sound...
...hand and eye. To the day of his death he could catch a fly in flight between his thumb & forefinger. The day of his death, like most of the days of his life, found Griffo without a dime. Money was minted to his memory. In an imposing white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard, Griffo was buried from the consequential Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The funeral throng was mixed from the brave days of old; tottering gray figures forgotten by the sport world, women who remembered, fighters he had knocked senseless. A newspaperman reported James J. Corbett, onetime heavyweight champion...
...collections of Indian pottery that has ever been unearthed in that region. Although the party was unable to determine definnitely what type of Indians inhabited the village, the ruins of the house, the bones, pottery, and stone implements indicate that the dwellers were prehistoric Pueblos. The absence of any metal remains intimates that the Indians had never come under the influence of explorers. More than 1000 burials were brought to light...
...were prepared last week for the wide woman draped in metal cloth who fluttered on at the Palace, bowed low as if for great applause, smiling. Now, at 62, there was little voice, little vitality for a Troubadour song, for d'Hardelet's "Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay...