Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Granite City' ... the 'Silver City by the Sea' . . . should be seen after a heavy rainfall when its stately structures and countless houses gleam pure and white under the brilliant sunshine...
...Fogg, the exhibition of Maya Art, loaned by the Peabody Museum, Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot's exhibition of French silver winetasters' cups, and The Denman W. Ross '75 collection of Chinese and Japanese portraits are still on view...
Orleans rushed into their City Hall to make merry with expansive Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. The school children of New Orleans were instructed to contribute a penny each to buy a silver scroll of thanks for President Coolidge. Mayor O'Keefe called for thanksgiving services in all the churches. The Flood Control bill was law at last...
Presumably no vestige of pique at the enforced omission remained in the mind of Esmond Harmsworth, next day, when he accepted for Lord Rothermere a made-in-Hungary automobile with a chassis of re-enforced silver and a body overlaid with hammered gold. The donor, Herr Franz Bert, pioneer Hungarian motor manufacturer, was reported to have spent upon his well-meant if gaudy gift...
...troops out of Valley Forge, that noble eccentrician, Governor John Hancock, put his bold signature on the last bill passed by the Provincial Court of Massachusetts. The bill gave young Samuel Phillips Jr. the right to open a school for boys at Andover, Mass. Horseman Paul Revere designed a silver seal (finis origine pendet) for the school; and 13 boys began to study under Eliphat Pearson, whom they dubbed "Elephant." In 1789, President George Washington came to Andover to make a speech; later eight of his nephews and grandnephews went to school there...