Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is "Joseph" ; urbane, silver-haired, well known to most U. S. visitors in London, whose photographic memory has puzzled many. He has not given a check for a hat or coat for the last 20 years, he never forgets a face; and the now famous coat which was so nearly stolen has been under his care on more than one occasion. (It was not, as it happens, a particularly new coat.) Hence his feelings at your paragraph. But Joseph is as shy as his memory is razor-keen, and on his behalf I venture, therefore, to exonerate him from...
...Caesar had his Brutus, Jesus Christ had his Judas Iscariot, the United States had its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois has Len Small. And if the Judas of Illinois had the courage of the Judas of Jesus, he would return the 30 pieces of silver, get a rope and hang himself, and remove the withering blight which will remain upon this state as long as he is Governor of Illinois...
...Lincoln '30 with a score of 83.95 won the silver cup offered by the Military Science Department for high score...
With the failure of the silver dollar and the two-dollar bill to win universal favor, the Treasury Department found itself printing (in 1926) 227,566,949 sheets of currency, a large proportion of which was in the form of one-dollar bills. It is the one-dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp...
...their civic sisters the country over, are dedicated to making politics "cleaner" and more reasonable, tried lately to elect a president. A Mrs. John Marshall Gallagher was a candidate. A Mrs. Hanna V. Imhof-despite gossip that she had said she would not have the presidency, even "on a silver platter"-was another...