Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the last weeks, still so fresh in his mind, the Student Vagabond feels a great and irresistible urge to wander farther afield than the confines of Sever and New Lecture Hall. Never before have the Metropolitan white-lights glowed so invitingly; never before have the boards and the silver screen been so enticing...
...President Grover Cleveland (Gold Democrat) offered him the treasury seat. Mr. Gage refused. In 1896, he and other Gold Democrats helped Mark A. Hanna defeat William Jennings Bryan (Silver-tongued Silver Democrat) and, to be polite to the Gold Democrats who voted for his candidate, Mark Hanna gave Mr. Gage the Treasury post in William McKinley's Cabinet. Theodore Roosevelt irked Mr. Gage, and he left the Cabinet as soon after Mr. McKinley's death as it was proper to do so. He had done his work well. Mr. Gage had but two honorary degrees-one from Beloit...
...Paris, females were shown what to wear: evening gowns that came up to the neck in front and down to the waist* in back; sport sweaters used as jumpers; belts on jackets, ensemble coats and separate coats; colors of red banana, vert d'eau (light green), cochineal, silver grey, violine (light purplish blue...
...Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones, or indigo ones, or even some navy-blue ones." Lovers are close for a moment...
...showed them ledgers filled with "donations" together with lists of the charities to which this money had been given. The charities had actually received the money. Aside from "office expenses," not a penny had the charming young man and his friend kept of some $500,000 which, in silver and jewelry, they had stolen from their peers, given away to the poor. Both were capable civil engineers. Both had money of their own. They were placed in a ward for observation...