Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Romans awaited the Amir in a city decked with the bright, Italian tricolor: red, white, green. Came the chuffing special from Naples, bearing the sombre banner of Afghanistan: black, but worked in silver with the arms of the Amir. Soon Amanullah, the "Peace of God," descended majestically from his salon...
...Sterling Silver. Manufacturers are Reed & Barton Corp., of Taunton, Mass., Dominick & Haff, Inc., of Newark, N. J. and McChesney Co., also of Newark, N. J. (controlled by Dominick & Haff). They have merged...
Metropolitan Chain Stores, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,271,878 11.4 McLellan Stores Co. . . . . . . 12,942,168 22.9 G. C. Murphy Co. . . . . . . . . . . 10,233,592 19.6 J. G. McCrory Co. . . . . . . . . . 39,337,644 17.0 Neisner Bros., Inc. . . . . . . . . 6,452,159 45.9 Isaac Silver & Bros. . . . . . . . 5,609,947 17.2 Kinnear Stores . . . . . . . . . . . 3,035,807 43.8 ---- -- Total...
...crept into general usage recently . . . a form of punctuation . . . consisting of three dots . . . that give a specious appearance of dignity and importance to their literature . . . and are felt to enhance the impression that the writer strives to create . . . In advertising puffs . . . especially in advertising snowy linen . . . and beautiful silver . . . and trips to the Riviera . . . and other nice things . . . it has superseded all other punctuation. . . . But it is also being widely used in novels . . . where the comma has gone into a decline . . . and the reader reads in a coma . . . Even in the psychological study. . The Locomotive God . . . the interesting and painful...
...sale lasted for four days. The first three were spent in auctioning off the smaller, the less valuable pieces. A rich woman purchased a pair of Irish silver sauce-boats for $2,500; other collectors bought in card-tables, marble clocks, lamps, figurines, inkstands, door knockers, small sofas and chairs, portraits of French ladies whose furtive, lovely faces looked down with gay bewilderment at the solemn faces of antique dealers and U. S. ladies of fashion. On the fourth day of the sale the finest pieces were brought on the platform; the buyers, in their excitement, kept crossing their knees...