Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essential thing. Before the first gavel fell, the Smith managers were concerned lest their progress look like "steam-rollering." They confined themselves to distributing 50 cases of Smith literature and discussed the platform more than their man. Odds rose to 9 to i on the Smith nomination. Thomas ("Silver Tongue") Hickey onetime newsboy "from the sidewalks of San Francisco" prepared his speech to second the Smith nomination. "There are two kinds of big men," said Mr. Hickey. "Those who grow and those who just swell. Well, Al's growing all the time...
...captain is known officially as a "King's Messenger" and popularly as a "Silver Greyhound." He is one of only 25 picked diplomatic couriers who have the right to wear as a distinctive badge a small silver coursing greyhound...
...black-furred cub of a silver-tipped sire, boyish Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette of Wisconsin, mounted the convention platform last week as his dead father had so often done before him, to voice the "conscience" of the G. 0. P. He followed Senator Smoot. He presented what has been called, since 1908 when the senior La Follette began the practice, "The Minority Report on the Platform...
...last week gave a trophy and prizes for the first intercollegiate yacht race. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, in Norwegian eight-metre yachts, borrowed from the Pequot Yacht Club, raced a 6.9 mile course off Southport, Conn. Princeton's boat won the cup; each member of the crew a silver ashtray...
Ernest W. Marland, Oklahoma oilman, gave a housewarming to open his $2,000,000 mansion at Ponca City. The 100 guests were dined, entertained by famed vaudevillians, presented with silver loving, cups. But the party was early and sober, for all 100 guests were small children, young proteges of Magnate Marland...