Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Park Superintendent, Colonel H. M. Albright. A long day was spent in listening to stories told to his discredit. He was responsible, he heard, for an exhorbitant motorcar entrance fee of $7.50. Buffalo had died during the filming of The Thundering Herd. Favoritism had been shown to the neighboring Silver Tip Ranch owned by Thomas Cochran (Morgan Partner). Equipment had been loaned to utility companies. There was too much banqueting of Eastern dudes at government expense...
High up on the Pampas, a ranch which no bull's hide by any Carthaginian will could circle. . . A palace. . . Moving toward it a cavalcade of peons wearing sombreros, embroidered shirts, silver- studded belts, mounted on caballas . . . In a motor, a decorous Prince. It continued to be said that the Prince would be instructed by his royal parents to visit the West Indies, and that in consideration of this additional service rendered, he would be permitted a week on Long Island before going home...
...this woman was not entirely derelict. In her vanity case she had: 1) a mutilated passport picture of herself, with some notes scribbled on its back, 2) some British pounds and shillings, 3) a small silver mirror marked with the initials "V. L." Reporters were somewhat skeptical of the woman. One of the notes on the passport picture was the name of Elinor Glyn. A telegram to the famed novelist in California elicited the reply that she knew no woman of this description. One of the pressmen, the representative of The New York Herald-Tribune, thereupon refused to have anything...
Edwin Franko Goldman, conductor of the famed Goldman Band, had offered prizes-one silver, two bronze medals-to go to the persons who recognized the greatest number of tunes from the excerpts which his celebrated bandsmen would deliver. Because it is impossible to print music in the compressed pages of a newsmagazine, readers cannot play the game as Goldman's listeners played it. But they can try it in reverse order. Reading the name of the selections played by Mr. Goldman, they can see if they are able to whistle...
...returned!" With this journalistic naivete a pressman described the match between William M. Johnton and Brian I. C. Norton at the Newport Casino. No epigram could have summed it up as neatly. Johnston, since he already won the tournament on two previous years gained permanent possession of the Casino silver bowl, valued...