Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barnes Foundation is five years old, endowed in perpetuity by proceeds from the chemical business, one of whose big money-makers is Argyrol (silver preparation for infected mucous membranes). From Argyrol to Art seems a long way to many a Philadelphian, but in the dictionary of Dr. Albert C. Barnes the two words are almost adjacent...
...Right Honorable James Ramsay Macdonald was indeed aboard, bound for Southampton and the U. S. A crowd of friends, most of them potent Laborites, stood tip-toe on the platform to shout Godspeed. Ramsay Macdonald's head- a tousled mop of silver-bobbed in friendly fashion from the door of his compartment. Beside him, flushed and laughing, stood apple-cheeked Ishbel Macdonald, his wholesome daughter. "Ishbel," the onetime Premier had chuckled to newsgatherers, "Ishbel has always been keen to visit the United States. She wants to motor out to Mount Vernon when we get to Washington because...
...ephemeral press notices of the past month materialized yesterday with the arrival in the Yard of J. L. Johnston, of the studio staff. In order to give every student who forsees for himself a future on the silver screen, every opportunity to sell his personality, ability, and appearance to the representatives of America's second greatest industry, the tests at Harvard will be held on Tuesday, April 26, instead of Saturday, April 23, as previously announced...
...made the whole state one enormous farm of stretching fields of grain and pastures. The people, nearly 90% of them of foreign stock, are sturdy, simple. Not only grain and livestock were bred in this fruitful farmland, but stalwart men as well. From Nebraska came William Jennings Bryan, the silver-tongued, foremost popular orator of his day; General John J. Pershing, first in command of the U. S. soldiery in the World War; Charles Bryan, Nebraska's idealist Governor (1923.-25); Gilbert M. Hitchcock, onetime Democratic leader of the Senate; Charles G. Dawes came out of Nebraska, went...
...same autumn 1927) that Mrs. Fiske starts her tour, the Theatre Guild of New York will launch a "road" enterprise. Four plays, Mr. Pirn Passes By, The Silver Cord, The Guardsman, Arms & the Man, will be presented in principal cities by a permanent company of Broadway actors under Guild supervision. The plays noted are among the most successful in the repertory...