Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, the Indian goldsmiths of Oaxaca were perhaps unsurpassed by any in the world. Many other tribes from Mexico to Chile were also expert workers. They were proficient in the arts of casting, hammering, and embossing gold, silver, and copper, and had perfected the art of plating the baser metal with pure gold...
...much of it day by day; more than enough of the "romance of business" which is no romance. Inevitably are there times when we long to have, (as what gentleman should not?) "at least twenty coats"; to find ourselves in a wide hall choosing a rapier of founding a silver mounted pistol, or to be out on the still wider seas, swinging a cutlass...
...Silver Bay can be reached by motor from Boston in one day, and those going West will find it only a short distance out of their...
Delegates attending the conference will be able to reach New London for the races on June 23 by leaving Silver Bay one day early...
Despite this scattering of peroxide hairs among the silver, however, the opera still remains a delightful and amusing creation. Straus's score is still "a thing of beauty and a joy forever". Moreover the settings of the first act combine brilliance of color with an ingenious use of draperies, and the whole is no further from the actualities of Bulgaria than the nature of the piece demands. The garden scene, likewise, is most picturesque, and is not sufficiently like any known landscape as to mislead even the most realistically-minded...