Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black cat prowled about a London shop. Its side brushed softly against a small silver statue of Cragadour, Lord Astor's favorite for the Epsom Derby. The statue trembled, fell. Next day, all England heard of the incident. The next night the statue was stolen. Throughout England filtered a whispered nervous doubt...
...Silver baseballs and silver track shoes will be given the members of the respective 1932 teams...
...Captain Dean's "assistant writer," Sterling North, met his subject receptively, admiringly. It was in March 1928, that University of Chicago authorities introduced them. Harry Dean, like Trader Horn, was broke, peddling his talents. North was 20, a poet, storyteller, student; Dean was 63, face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been an adventurer on the continent truly his race's for 16,000 years. How much dark embroidery he has put on his life story, it is impossible, and unimportant, to tell. It is a cracking good...
...past four years. Six hundred miles away, a monumental mausoleum was ready to receive it, built by the Nationalist government on a hillside overlooking Nanking. Bearing it thither was an elaborate railway funeral coach, pride of the Peking-Hankow Railway, built of hand carved teakwood, fitted with solid silver doors, window frames, light fixtures, its walls draped with Nationalist red, blue, and white silk, its floors muffled with a blue silk run of double thickness. Most important of all, there was in final readiness the last bit of pavement on the Chung Shan Chi Nien-great straight memorial road, eight...
Kwantung's Chen accepted with alacrity. The Kwangsi troops ceased their advance. Wagon loads of silver coin, food and munitions were sent out from Canton to appease the besiegers. Foreign correspondents sent squibs to their papers describing this example of Chinese warfare...