Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sunken vessel is a strong room; in the strong room $4,000,000 in gold and silver bullion. The sea-gropers knew just where to cut through the side of the hull. Weather permitting, they planned to hoist out the 30 tons of treasure in great wicker baskets lifting a ton at a time. Two weeks they estimated the job would take them, before they sailed back to New York to enrich their backers with a 10,000% profit...
...recorded: Merry del Val is no longer young. Last week in Rome, in St. Peter's, was celebrated the silver jubilee of the day in 1900 when he became titular bishop of Nicaea. The ceremony was simple, because of the recent death of the Cardinal's mother. The great basilica was almost empty. With the ancient ritual, before assembled ecclesiastics, Merry del Val said mass. As he came down from the altar, the Te Deum of thanksgiving pealed forth...
...Some small saving to the Government can be made by having only one kind of one-dollar bills instead of four as at present (greenbacks, silver certificates, National Bank notes, Federal Reserve Bank notes...
Born in Vienna, he won a prize at the Royal Academy, Berlin, began his career there in the days when the Kaiser perniciously interfered in the work of every studio. Fuchs at length obtained permission from the imperial megalomaniac to execute a silver equestrian statuette; his reputation was made. He went to Rome, was patronized by yellow Italian noblemen with peaked eyes and thin noses; Queen Margherita came to see his work; John Singer Sargent encouraged him to remove to London. There he sculped everyone of consequence. His book bristles with passages like the following...
...American Flag, in second place, was behaving queerly. Jockey Johnson, on his back, did not lift his hands, raise his whip. But American Flag bounded past Prince de Bourbon as if the latter were shod with billets. To his owner, Samuel D. Riddle, went the stakes, and a great silver basket donated by the late Major August Belmont. The obliging gentlemen thoughtfully relit their masticated, short cigars. They had, as usual, been right...