Word: ophir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indies, once the bourn of every explorer, source of spices and plumes and gold, home of the noble savage, Ophir, cradle of wealth, land of the faraway dream, are now the backyard of squabbling empires. Six captious countries have their pieces...
This week in Virginia City merger of four of the most fabulous Comstock mines will be broached-Ophir, Mexican, Andes and Consolidated Virginia. Only "Eastern interest" to admit his connection with the deal was John Jacob Raskob, identified in the local Press as a "New York contractor." With his wife, the onetime Democratic National chairman was at nearby Lake Tahoe...
Reid called in the auctioneers to sell everything in the great palace known as Ophir Hall...
...what they liked. They liked French tapestries, British, French and Dutch paintings of landscapes and fine-looking people, Persian rugs on the floors, Chinese pottery everywhere, and their favorite kind of chair was one covered with fine needlepoint. Last week, through four days of sightseeing and five of auctioning, Ophir Hall was full of socialites of Edwardian tastes, bidding against the usual agents...
...Named by Ben Halliday of Pony Express fame, after his Ophir gold mine, which he had named for the legendary Biblical land of Ophir whence King Solomon got some of his gold...