Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago but five of the original group assembled, including in their number Adam Marty. This year 34 places were set as usual, shining with bright silver and glassware. In the center of the table, amid the decorations, rested the consecrated bottle. Thirty chairs were draped with black, among them Adam Marty's. One survivor was too decrepit to make the journey from his Florida home. But three men dined where once the 34 had supped. Too soon will the bottle's cork be pulled...
...that case," remarked the patriarch, "your troubles are only just beginning . . ." and the story ends. The stories told by Kai Lung in his golden hours-fantastic, urbane, ironic, witty, courteous, magical- -these stories, naturally, are the substance of the book-jade emblems strung on a cord of Chinese silver, emblems marked with enchanted characters. The Significance. Kai Lung's Golden Hours is not a book to read at a sitting with breathless excite ment-it is a book to be dipped into and laid aside and dipped into again, and always with pleasure and refreshment. It is also...
...representative for the trip, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, William Vincent Astor, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt), Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and in the second cabin John W. Slack, postal machinery manufacturer of Silver Creek, N. Y., who recently made unprecedented "fake" bid of $1,000,000, 000 for the entire Government fleet...
...Blue Sea, Silver Wave, Belinda and Iskum, American trading schooners, were detained by Soviet officials at East Cape, Siberia. It was stated that the British Hudson Bay Company had obtained exclusive rights to trade on the north Siberian coast, and thus the American ships were violating the trade laws of the Soviet Government of Siberia...
...Haviland plane he took and successfully passed the final tests, including all the " acrobatic " maneuvers? loop, roll, tail spin, Immelmann turn, falling-leaf, spin, spiral side slip, forward slip in landing, etc. At a luncheon of the Army and Navy Club in Washington, General Patrick received the silver wings of a flying pilot?the only Major General who had ever attained that distinction...