Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Current exhibitions at the Fogg Art Museum include a display of Maya art objects loaned by the Peabody Museum, a group of paintings and drawings by Louise W. Jackson, a collection of French silver wine-taster's cups, loaned by Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot, and an exhibit of Chonest and Japanese portraits by Denman Rose...
...perfume of roses and orange blossoms . . . heavy in the night-shadowed streets," and, ". . . long night rides through the black and silver of a moonlit country-side...
...rolls open. The tempo increases. People thicken the streets and the subways. It is 8 a. m. A hand seizes an electric switch. Machinery gleams in a maddening rhythm. White-hot balls become bottles. Typewriter keys dance. Faster and faster until noon. A lull. Sausages and beer. Chicken and silver platters. An elephant yawns and wags his tail slowly. Machinery moves again. So do feet, taxicabs, street cars, the arms of traffic officers. There is a suicide at the river, a bubble in the water. Workmen wash their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis...
Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor of The American Hebrew and the new Jewish Encyclopedia; Abba Hillel Silver, young Cleveland rabbi...
...tiny garden situated upon the sunny expanse of the Square of Quiretti. in Rome, workmen erected a fountain whose light waters were to dance into the air and fall in a shower of silver sparks. The fountain was in the form of human figures, incompletely clothed; around the Square of Quiretti are numerous convents and educational institutions. The inmates of these houses disliked the fountain because of the nudity of its statuary; not long after its erection, Pope Pius XI himself sent deputies into the sunny plaza to gaze upon the fountain and determine the degree of its propriety...