Word: pewter
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While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...
Walls and tables were choked with silver rings, pewter ash trays, fashion sketches, electrical equipment, straw hats, parchment lamp shades, gingham dresses. Demonstration classes in French, stenography, music appreciation, beauty culture, etiquette and Budgeting the Family Income chattered and squirmed in the centre of each floor. Behind exhibits and pupils lay the stories of some 75,000 men and wo- men stranded by Depression and floated off poverty, despair or boredom by a movement which has become one of the most significant phenomena of the past decade...
...further auctioning. When a series of such auctions had realized $125,000, Mr. Marshall decided to smash the cup, melt the gold for Red Cross benefit. Before an audience which included President Wilson he cracked it once. The cup fell apart, turned out to be mostly pewter, worth...
...Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world...
...Stanley Cup. emblematic of the World's Professional Hockey Championship, is a trophy which mystifies many hockey enthusiasts in the U. S. In the first place, small, battered and made of pewter, its appearance is incongruous with its importance. In the second place, possession of the Stanley Cup is decided by a procedure which is almost ridiculous in its complexity. The National Hockey League, chief circuit of hockey, is divided into the American Group and the International Group, of four teams each. At the end of the season, only the team which finishes lowest in each group is eliminated from...