Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preacher in ECCLESIASTES continues: He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase-and what good is there to the owners thereof? And again readers asked the question: Is this according to the doctrine of Opportunity-for-all which stimulates every man to forge his way to the top? Is it not rather the end of initiative, the beginning of a hybrid Hindu-Socialism...
...School Newspaper Federation. The conditions of the award will be announced at the annual dinner of that body, which is to take place in New York on March 28, by F. V. Field '27, former president of the CRIMSON. The prize will take the form of a silver cup, similar to that which was awarded last year, and again it will become the permanent property of the paper which wins it. The cup will be the gift of this year's Senior Board, but it will be awarded by the CRIMSON...
...William Randolph Hearst: "In ankle-length bloomers of white chiffon embroidered with silver, diamond-studded feather headdress, a bodice of brilliants with emerald and diamond shoulder-straps, anklets of diamonds and a sweeping Oriental train, I last week descended a golden staircase in the Bath and Tennis Club, Palm Beach, Fla. Up leaped one Rafaelo Diaz,* in white satin coat and silver trousers, from a throne surrounded by dancing girls. He embraced me and sang an aria from La Gioconda. It was a pageant during a Persian ball which newsgatherers reported as 'most brilliant of the season...
...explained that a faulty oil pipe had caused his descent, in a rough sea, near the mouth of the Fatma River. Waves quickly smashed the plane. It was a hard mile swim to shore. Soon Moorish tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while tribesmen shot...
Theatre Guild Repertory?The Brothers Karamazov, The Silver Cord...