Word: silver
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second football squad will also attend the dinner as personal guests of N. F. Ayer '00, president of the Harvard Club, and inasmuch as the second team went through the season undefeated, the H. A. A. is paying them recognition by presenting the members with silver medals decorated with a raised half football. At the same time, the University team will receive gold football charms...
...City; Prince Massimo, Papal Postmaster General, gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform of a field marshal. From his hat sprouted a white aigrette, round his neck hung the flashing gold chain of the Collar of the Annunziata, on his breast blazed medals. Towering a good head and shoulders above him stood Queen Elena...
...Silver trumpets fanfared. The royal procession moved across St. Peter's Square. Like medieval statues, a platoon of the famed Swiss Guards stood at attention in the scarlet, green and yellow uniforms designed for them by Michael Angelo. Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace. Under the Bernini colonnade, the Palatine Guards, more "efficient section of the Pope's army, snapped modern rifles to the present...
...Professional Golfers Association used to give a silver cup to the player who won their annual tournament. This year they put up a radio phonograph with a bronze plate for the winner's name. Nobody knew where the cup was. Walter Hagen had won it so often that he got careless about it and forgot it one day. When Leo Diegel beat him last year, Hagen's manager had to tell the committee where the cup was. "I don't know," he said. "It's hard enough getting him out of bed in the morning without...
Eggs & Flowers: A little old lady-fan in White Plains, N. Y. used to send them regularly, followed finally by all her family silver. The eggs were 'always fresh...