Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bedecorated. The ladies, in a riot of gorgeous color, provided a spectacle more brilliant than any witnessed since 1914. At 9:30 o'clock in the evening, the King, in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Life Guards, and the Queen, draped in a gown of silver tissue, entered the Throne Room. The band struck up God Save the King. Their Majesties stopped; upon the conclusion of the anthem, His Majesty made a curt nod of acknowledgment and took his place with the Queen upon the throne dais. Members of the Royal Family and numerous officials...
...distinct, but his lips never opened. Language issued from his head as from that of a ventriloquist's dummy. For this man, one Charles Kendrick, had no larynx, no vocal cords. These had been removed in an operation for cancer of the throat, in their place put a silver tube which emerges from the throat of Mr. Kendrick and is held in place by a neat black ribbon which passes around his neck underneath his collar. He has learned to talk by bringing the sound up from his stomach. The Society was interested...
...will write about these charming people, they do say. He has a pretty way with words, this Michael, or this Dikran. If it is the same trick that the cavaliers of the 17th Century had with a lady's hand, and the dandies of the 18th with a silver perruque and a puffing neckcloth, that is because he stands, as they did, in defense of gallantry; and it is a proud thing to be paid for defending gallantry in a world that has forgotten it. As for putting stories together, he.can put one inside the other, so that...
...clock on the Jarvis Field courts. Nine schools have signified their intention of entering six-men teams, while two others will be represented by individual competitors. The winning team will be awarded a shield, while the individual winner and runner-up will receive a gold and silver medal respectively...
Almost 30 men have already signed up for the Harvard delegation to the Silver Bay conference, it was announced last night. The number is already far above the number that has gone in recent years, and many more are expected to signify their intentions of going before the party leaves...