Word: pewter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conflagration got out of control and was licking hungrily at the tail-feathers of one of the stuffed pelicans that haunt the curie grotto. In the nick of time Coles Phinizy '42, head comie, cantered to the rescue armed with an old pewter tankard (dated at least 1639) and avowed its contents onto the flames, which immediately went...
...subchasers, her original owner, Wilson Marshall, decided to give that same Gold Cup (supposedly worth $5,000) to the American Red Cross to be auctioned off-and the resentment that swept the country when it was discovered that the Kaiser's Cup was actually gold-plated pewter, worth about...
...jointly, live quietly with their mother, Mrs. Hannah Goldstein, in a neat, red brick apartment building overlooking St. Paul's Langford Park. Their small apartment is carefully decorated according to the rules in Art in Everyday Life. Even their hobbies are collaborative: taking pictures with Leica cameras, making pewter plates and hand-printed draperies. To University of Minnesota home economists their prim, judicious maxims are cultured pearls of wisdom. Samples...