Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...
Captain Jessup of Washington toughened up with Captain Kelly of Chicago in the same lead-silver mine in Idaho last summer. Kelly dug the pay-dirt when they met in moleskins. Eighteen completed Maroon passes gained 305 yards, Chicago 26, Washington...
...unusually interesting pet." In a corner of his own slept a skunk. Because New York State law prohibits the exhibition of cats for more than two successive days, last event of the spectacle was a cat show. From far and near came black, red, cream, chinchilla, silver, smoke and brown toms and tabbies. Judges pulled fur, pried open eyes, thumped sides, tabulated their conclusions. Best cat in the show: Lavender Choice of Runnymede. blue male. Best of opposite sex: Pansy 0-So-Bonne, blue-eyed white. Best novice: Saxby Silver Miss Floss. Best novice of opposite sex: Ming Quong...
Preventive Work. The U. S. society and the Red Cross are trying to reduce the world's incidence of blindness by preventive work-by educating mothers and communities to the use of silver nitrate on every newborn's eyes, by getting children's eye clinics established, by teaching teachers to recognize impaired vision, by trying to eradicate trachoma, by preventing accidents and eye strain in industries...
...Haven & Hartford R. R., read in the road's monthly house organ Along the Line that employes were invited to suggest names for a new Boston-New York flier the road was planning. Newlywed Coolidge's suggestions were last week published by the road's publicity staff as follows: Silver Shaft, Twilighter, Dusky Flier, Evening Star, Skipper, Shadowtown Special, Yankee Clipper, Seagull, Pioneer, Ace, Sea Flier, Sea Slipper, Blackhawk, Kingfleet...