Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent a majority in the electoral college and throw the election into the House of Representatives. There his radical followers hold the balance of power, but it is dubious whether they could elect him. As possible alternatives, his participation might give the nomination to the Democrats on a silver dish?as Roosevelt's did in 1912. Or he might send all the conservatives of the nation into the Coolidge camp for shelter ?especially if the Democratic candidate is progressive...
Another hostile critic was the Daily Herald, official organ of the Independent Labor Party. The newspaper referred to the "ostentatious" court gown of Mrs. Philip Snowden and "the scarlet coat and blue trousers trimmed with silver braid" of "Jamie" Brown, King George's proxy at Holyrood, spoke of its "impatient contempt for such misuse of life...
...produce. The unexpected, fantastic dream situations lend themselves to some remarkable trick effects, including one in which Buster walks right out of an audience and into a picture on the screen, only to be promptly hurled back into the audience by one of the players acting on the silver sheet...
...expected, Loomis won the silver shield given by the H. A. A. with a total of 20 points; Exeter was second with 17; and Newton and Andover tied for third with 14 each...
...University of California has won the annual track and field championship of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America. And on Saturday, before the championship races at the 48th annual title meet had been run off in the Stadium, it had seemed highly probable that the huge silver track cup would go West again,--this time with Leland Stanford, another Pacific Coast college...