Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georgeous ecclesiastical and state vestments - robes in cloth of gold and silver, adorned with pearls, rubies and emeralds - are to be exhibited in the Kremlin Palace at Moscow. These robes are said to be worth a fabulous sum and to be of great beauty. Some of them were made when Constantinople was known to the world under its old name of Byzantium. They were worn only at the highest functions by the dignitaries of the Russian Orthodox Church...
...toes of Tammany chieftains. He stands against the League of Nations and " Wilsonism." Mrs. Hearst, on the other hand, has stepped on nobody's toes. She has made herself popular by her public benefactions.. Only a few weeks ago she took a prominent part in Mayor Hylan's Silver Jubilee of Greater New York. She has always stood openly behind ex-President Wilson. And she commands the respect of the Hearst press...
...hitherto unrecognized painting by Jan Vermeer of Delft (1632-1675), who is acclaimed by some discerning critics as the greatest painter of all time, has been discovered in Paris. It represents a young boy, half-length, full-face, auburn curls, scalloped collar, yellowish silver-gray jacket, brownish-red cloak. Many connoisseurs had seen the picture but had not suspected its authorship until a dealer, noting the resemblance to Vermeer's charming Young Girl in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, found various other clues, and was corroborated by the leading Vermeer critic...
Heterodoxy on the silver screen...
...Sparkling comedienne of the silver sheet," Constance Talmadge has turned "cartoonist," according to the announcement of her press agent. She is "collaborating" with Lauren Stout, cartoonist. "That is," continued her press agent, "Constance develops the. ideas and lines, then gives them to Mr. Stout, who, in turn, transfers them to paper." Miss Talmadge's first venture as an artist-a pen-and-ink artist-will be a series of cartoons entitled Dulcy, The Delightful Dumbbell. They are syndicated by the Key-City Feature Service and will appear in the Evansville (Ind.) Courier, the Rockwell (Okla.) Tribune, the Boston Post...