Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Silver Bay Delegation
Died. Mrs. Harriet Danks, 82, said to be the inspiration of Silver Threads Among the Gold. Hart P. Danks; her husband, composed the melody of this famed love song in 1874. The song sold, prosperity came, the Danks separated. He died 21 years ago in a Philadelphia rooming house with a copy of his song in his hand; on it was pencilled: "It's hard to grow old alone." Despite the $75,000 royalties, over which their children are still fighting, Mrs. Danks died in reduced circumstances in a Brooklyn rooming house...
Such are the fortunes of publishing. George Horace Lorimer celebrated his silver anniversary with a weekly which has made Cyrus H. K. Curtis several fortunes in cash. At the same time the Interpreter clutched at the thin red line of thinkers. To one the American public is a gold mine of appreciation; to the other it is a laggard...
...days when a university was a place of learning rather than of teaching those words had a sublime signifleance. The hours of scholarship, were in retrospect at least, silver with thoughtful speech and golden with silent thinking. But the Spirit of the Hour under whose dreadful rule Harvard now swears and sweats by turns is of a very different nature, with a more malign influence...
Between 50,000 and 100,000 claims (totaling $100,000,000) are being prepared against the Mexican govern-ment by American citizens and corporations. Virtually every petroleum company operating in Mexico, every copper, gold and silver mining company, individuals (including ranch owners), business interests, and relatives of persons injured and killed in the course of the last decade of revolution, spoilation and expropriation, are filling in the appropriate blanks distributed by the U. S. State Department. Thus Mexico will soon face a $100,000,000 bill...