Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month, English efforts to build the R-100 at Howden, Yorkshire, have met with serious delays. Government subsidies, already totaling $1,750,000, are at an end until test flights may prove successful. No funds are available for the wages of 300 skilled workmen, now sheathing the airship in silver linen, completing the structural ribs behind which the gas bags will be placed, testing the six Rolls-Royce engines...
Texas Guinan's Mimic Helen Morgan's Merry-Go-Round Blue Hour Charm Furnace Ferndale Don Royale Silver Slipper Jungle Luigi's Beaux Arts Frivolity European Greenwich Social La Frera Knight The raiders were 100 Federal agents, picked from distant districts, whom Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran ordered to Manhattan in February to "get the lay." In couples and squads and single, well-dressed and well-heeled, they had ingratiated themselves with night club proprietors. Helen Morgan, actress-hostess, was angered to discover that the "Mr. & Mrs. Lon Tyson" whom she had played with for weeks...
Airplane manufacturers swelled with pride and anticipation, each confident his make would perform most dependably on the long flight to Texas, to California, Oregon and back through the Northwest. Manufacturer Edsel B. Ford, donor of the four-foot, silver and green marble trophy, acted as starter, watched his own new models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious...
...human drama that this should be so. ... The crowd likes nothing better than to see a half-wit get the better of a pompous intellectual. It restores confidence as it were." When he is in a tight fix, Mr. Interlocutor blandly and sonorously announces a rendition by our silver-voiced tenor, or an original specialty by our own little Mr. Tambo...
Chicken a la King. Now that summer has come, it is good to see Ford Sterling on the silver screen. He has a cool countenance and, at one point, he becomes covered with snow. In a quiet way he is funny. He plays a middle-aged married man named Horace Trundle who is shorn of his bankroll by two chorus girls in the accepted Gentlemen Prefer Blondes fashion. In the end, his wife, Erne (Carol Holloway), gets him back. The cast is capable: Nancy Carroll as one of the girls...