Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dougherty of Philadelphia, who led 15,000 Americans to Rome for the event, the Pope began the mystic ceremony of making the Blessed Sister Therese, the Blessed Sainte Thérèse. Outside the Church, hundreds of people knew that the great moment of the ceremony had arrived. Silver bugles were sounded from the dome of the Church. Their clarion notes cut the still air with peculiar sweetness. A few seconds later, from the north, south, east and west, the bells of Rome's 400 churches tolled their...
Fricka, wife of the King of the Gods, in the earthly simulacrum of a Polish soprano named Olzewska, stood in the Vienna Staatsoper, lifting a curve of song that flashed over the dark orchestration like a silver simitar. Another voice was also audible. Through the cadences of Wagner's music, the brandished curve of Olzewska's voice, it issued from the wings, rising and falling in charming periods, punctuated with little ripples of laughter, like :he voice of a woman telling a funny story...
...interest and dividends received on foreign investments amounted to $790,000,000, similar remittances abroad, plus tourist expenditures and emigrant remittances totaled $1,178,000,000, or a "loss" of $388,000,000. This reduced U. S. merchandise balance to $582,000,000. Meanwhile, imports of gold and silver exceeded exports by $222,000,000-bringing down the credit balance...
...third year class presented Dr. Wambaugh with a rare first edition copy of Marshall's "Life of Washington" and the second year class gave him a silver bowl. A. E. Sutherland 3L, Marshal of the third year class, and L. C. Boisliniere '24, spoke in behalf of the students, and Professor Wambaugh replied with a short speech of thanks...
...with the separation of these three groups into separate conferences, the lure of Silver Bay for the college propagandist and the student cavalier should have vanished. It remains a place for the sober discussion of religion by those who are earnestly interested in such a subject. Those who are interested, will attend. But there should be no attempt to shanghai others into attendance...