Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laws of chance-if such be not contradictious in terms-there must be a few sunny days soon; a few mornings when the fresh spring green of the landscape glistens with sparkling dew-drops; afternoons when the light blue haze hangs over the Yard; nights when a round silver moon peeps over the tree tops through its gossemer veil of clouds, etc etc. In other words, the authority of the CRIMSON'S weather line notwithstanding, it is whispered that optimism reigns among some of the denizens of Plympton Street...
...Second Reader contained more complicated animal stories, also some frightening ones ? big bears, fierce tigers ? and the im mortal legend of George Washing ton and his father's cherry tree. In Dr. McGuffey's stories, children got bright new silver dollars when good, said "No, ma'am" to their mothers. Their rooms were "cham bers." Their dog was Rover. People went "down cellar...
...cabin, there was light enough to hook--and lose--the first salmon. As it slowly darkened, the nighthawks began to circle above the stream, the deer stole out to drink, and ripples along the faster water began to weave their fantastic patterns of black velvet shot with silver. A whippoorwill, the first I remember hearing as far north as this, is calling from the birches behind the tents. The thermometer registers 43, and we crawl into our sleeping bags and listen for a few happy minutes to the roar of the river--and the next thing I knew, a golden...
...favor able while the party is in camp it will try to ascend Mount Alberta, which was first scaled in 1925 by a party of Japanese. Hans Fuhrer who will be the guide on this trip was also on the Japanese expedition and it is rumored that a silver ice axe, a gift from the Emperor of Japan to the leader of the party, was left at the peak...
...theatre in Paris, last week, sat down, composed himself to view lily-fleshed Mae Murray in The Merry Widow. . . . Next day a wrathful M. Danilo Petrovic strode into the office of M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, famed barrister, repeatedly French representative before the League of Nations, known because of his silver tongue as "The Socialist Demosthenes," several times retained as an attorney by the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. For an hour the statesman-lawyer and the onetime prince laid their heads together. Then M. Paul-Bancour instituted suit for libel in behalf of his new client against the producers...