Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than the Old Soak could pass the swinging door." Elected to Congress at the age of 30, he was immediately conspicuous for his violent eloquence. Six years later (1896) he, a shrewd politician, achieved the Democratic nomination after the famous "Cross-of-Gold" speech in which he canonized free silver...
...GOBBLER OF GOD-Percy MacKaye -Longmans Green ($2.00). In prose, this folktale might well have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride...
...from home until he went last week to Atlantic City, N. J., and won the marbles championship of the U. S. His rewards: a gold watch, an Indian headdress, blanket, stone tomahawk. Gladys ("Tomboy") Coleman, favorite of the galleries, was eliminated early in the tournament. But she received a silver loving cup, along with the 47 other participants, at a church service in the Apollo Theatre...
...therapy during pregnancy; may even be entirely cured, after having been contracted, by proper medical measures at birth. Many states, realizing this, have legally outlawed ophthalmia neonatorum, making prophylactic treatment of the eyes of newborns compulsory, supplying prophylactic outfits through health departments. The treatment, consisting of drops of silver nitrate in proper dilution, is harmless to the normal eye; constitutes therefore a universal safety measure...
...quoting Literary Digest existed in 1871 to extract the first strong utterances of the Omaha Bee. Staunchly Republican, the Omaha Bee fought many a battle with its senior, the Democratic Omaha World-Herald. Most fast, most furious, were the wars of 1894-96, when a silver-tongued Boy Orator sat in the editor's chair at the World-Herald offices. William Jennings Bryan was no mean antagonist. His personality still dominates the World-Herald. Such battles tested, strengthened the Omaha Bee, so that its name became a Literary Digest perennial...