Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, Chairman Martin Barnaby Madden of the House Appropriations Committee was fighting to hold his seat from a Chicago district mostly populated by Negroes. With his long record, unusual ability and dignified conduct, silver-polled Mr. Madden had the sympathy and support of decent citizens. Yet he has inextricably affiliated with preposterous Mayor Thompson, whose war-cries ranged from "Crack King George on the snout!" to "To hell with the Tribune!" Political tickets being what they are in Chicago, Mr. Madden might well have been defeated together with Crowe. His opponent was William L. Dawson, a Negro backed...
...present incumbents, one is Henry Riggs Rathbone, a statesman of the wet-lipped, silver-tongued variety, with a grandiloquent voice. Mr. Rathbone's parents were in President Lincoln's box at Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination. Mr. Rathbone has never permitted himself, or any one else, to forget this coincidence...
...China, they saw a long narrow river, twisted like a silver whiplash, across flat lands to the ocean. The next day they were above the mountains, where it was cold...
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Pola Negri's glittering photodrama "Three Sinners" is one of those pictures which thrill backwoods audiences and cause girls with limited wardrobes to leave home for Hollywood. The features of the hectic and soul-stirring tragedy are Pola's bare back and-her silver wig. She handles both capably, so capably in fact that Dresden, Vienna, and Paris combined have nothing in the way of feminity to rival her. She portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast...