Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...century and a half ago the ladies of France, their skirts shining like inverted sprays of silver in the light of many candles, looked over their fans at a crumbling world and at gentlemen who took snuff, with elaborate and effeminate gesture, from small, silver boxes. In the rooms where they danced or laughed or whispered were chairs, tapestried in stiff silk, little frivolous statues, the infinitely suave and polished paintings of Watteau or Jean Honore Fragonard. Last week, in Manhattan, snuff boxes, chairs, desks, paintings, tapestries, busts, the wide golden branches in which tall candles had once burned brightly...
...Pray '25, it was announced yesterday. Second place went to R. S. Stryker, and third place was won by R. L. Reaser. Honorable mention were awarded to F. J. Cormier and R. O. Thompson. The winner of first place in the contest received a silver cup, and the winner of second place was given a book entitled "Charles Elliot, Landscape Architect...
...John P. Morgan, the big, impressive, genial 61-year-old, Episcopal banker, whose name in every language is a synonym for the power of wealth, had never before accepted a principal office in an enterprise which his banking house had financed.* Many people have observed the increasing potency of silver-haired, 65-year-old, Catholic James Augustine Farrell, whose father was a New Haven shipowner...
Professor Taussig has for many years been closely in touch with the problem which is to be discussed. He is the author of a "Tariff History of the United States". "The Silver Situation in the United State", "Free Trade, the Tariff and Reciprocity" and several other works...
...Choate News, in winning for the second consecutive year the CRIMSON newspaper contest for preparatory schools, has succeeded in accomplishing a somewhat greater feat than even the silver cup donated to it would lead one to imagine. Last year the Choate schoolboys were commended for their publication of a sheet intrinsically sound in editorial policy, makeup and general appearance. In view of their repeating the former triumph mere laudatory comment is superfluous. If the editors of the Choate News were to he congratulated on an excellent newspaper last year, they deserve even greater praise for having maintained their high standard...