Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senior singles event, which is open to any one and which is scheduled for Friday and Saturday of next week, a valuable silver cup, which will be come the permanent possession of the winner, has just been offered. Entries for this race may be made until next Thursday...
...Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than the day dream of an idle afternoon, as the blind minstrel whiled away the sunny hours on some hillside overlooking...
SUNRISE TRUMPETS?Joseph Auslander?Harper ($2.00). Lyric poems, intense, fragmentary, abruptly lovely; their chiseled imagery entirely unhackneyed and often breathtakingly beautiful. One hears the "bronze murmur of bees," feels a ship at night "lifted to the level of the rime-stung stars," knows the "shattered silver" and "crushed gray light" of rain, and the devastating beauty of women long dead?Yseult, Marie Antoinette, Guinevere...
...very poor accounts, and that some of you gentlemen here present will find yourselves in very hot water inside the next year." Such sentiments, however heroically sincere, would curdle the postprandial ice cream. About all the banker, considering his position, can well say is, that every cloud has a silver lining, that it's a wonderful country, and that if something doesn't prevent it, business will shortly be very good, probably...
Prize money went: to Dr. Lasker, $1,500; to Capablanca, $1,000; to Alekhinc, $750; to Marshall, $500; to Reti, $300. But everybody got a prize. Among the innumerable special awards was a silver cup from W. M. Vance of Princeton and $75 in gold from Albert H. Loeb of Chicago, to Reti for his game against Bogolju-bow, deemed the most brilliant game of them all. Loud were the patriotic plaudits that American Marshall should do so well, and to him was given the second brilliancy prize?also for a game against Bogoljubow. Bogoljubow, the so brilliantly defeated...