Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blatant, undignified press stories of the revolt. In Madrid not a single paper dared to mention it at all until Don Miguel was ready with his own version. Suddenly members of the so- called National Assembly?which has no parliamentary powers?heard the click of the Dictator's silver spurs and beheld him mounting the Tribune in full regalia. They saw a beefy, self-indulgent man, but withal keen-eyed and striking despite his paunch...
Heflin, Klu Klux Klan, free silver, William Jennings Bryan, prohibition, woman suffrage, McNary-Haugen farm relief may all be classed as attempts at reform. They have shared in common: lofty purpose, great zeal, and not a little oratory. Senator Oscar W. Underwood was opposed to each and every one of them. He saw something dangerous in them all. He felt that their purposes were not worth their methods. He was a complete Jeffersonian, and a quiet one at that...
This conquering lover of the loud ocean was born in 1877 near the murmuring mills of Worcester, Mass. He is silver-haired and very shy. After the Antinöe disaster, the wife of the rescued captain tried to thank Rescuer Fried. "It is only one of the little things that happen at sea," he said...
Daniel Guggenheim is getting old-72. His name is still synonymous with gold, silver, copper and nitrate mining from Alaska to Chile. That synonymity developed a half century ago when the late Meyer Guggenheim started a smelter in Colorado for his seven sons. In the last three and a half years, however, Daniel Guggenheim has made his name consonant with aeronautical promotion. First he gave $500,000 to New York University for a college of aeronautics.† His good friend Alexander Klemin is its active head. Next he gave $2,500,000 for a Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion...
...evening in the year when the average student steps out of mediocrity and promenades, the peer of the best on the campus. The Prom is worth its price-and would be even if it cost as much as the Denver papers say it does. University of Colorado Silver and Gold...