Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noble and Greenough, twice winner of the New England private school championship, is favored to carry off a third silver cup. Medford, having five times captured the class A trophy for high schools, is expected to continue its success of this winter and of past years. The class B championship is in doubt for Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Boston English, and Lawrence high schools are too evenly matched for any credible prophecy...
...clouds have their silver linings, they have also their dark exteriors...
...silver lining to the Austria cloud is that, despite outward suffering, there is an inner healing force working its way through the pangs of deflation to the bright sunshine of economic and financial prosperity...
...continuous mirth from the Commons. Black Rod, having arrived in front of the Speaker's Chair, informs the Speaker that "this honorable House" is commanded to attend His Majesty in the Senate. He departs. The Speaker, clad in knee-breeches, silk stockings, patent leather shoes complete with large silver buckles and wearing a sweeping black gown and large three-cornered hat, stands up, walks down the steps leading to his Chair and leads the surging Commons to the bar - of the Senate where he listens attentively to the Governor-General's speech from the throne and dutifully raises...
Venus Anadyomene bends down Her head, clutching with both hands her heavy, falling hair. To make her silver body, marble takes on the smoothness of sliding water, the whiteness of the foam out of which she, long ago, once arose...