Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the Democrats of Connecticut, in search of a worthy opponent to Senator Hiram Bingham, offered the nomination to Arthur Twining Hadley, 70, President Emeritus of Yale University, who had been a Democrat before the days of Bryan and "free silver." He refused, said he agreed on the whole with the policies of the present administration...
...pocket, produced a five dollar goldpiece, flung it onto the pier. His employes, heads of departments, white collar men, scrambled for it. Sanders Wertheim threw another. Again a scramble. The ship was sidling from the pier. Until the gap of brown water grew too wide, he continued to throw silver, gold, the employes continued to scratch each other, punch, prod, and squirm to pick up his largesse...
...foot shark nosed lazily about, off Santa Catalina Island in the Pacific. It was a bright day. In the pellucid blue beneath him the shark could see scores of rakish fish shapes, deep brown, like his own; silver-edged green, mottled grey, golden bellied; big tuna, amber jacks and yellowtails curving dreamily hither and yon, flashing off now and again for a bite of food. A school of his kind wrangled over a dead porpoise, but the big shark had fed. He lolled contentedly...
Then a commotion on the sea's bright surface caught his eye. Slowly, with cautious curiosity, he circled up that way. It was something ruddy, swimming right on top. That it was no fish could be told from the ribbons and puffs of silver bubbles it made beneath it. It was one of those forked animals from the land, a man. On board the U. S. S. Maryland, gobs spied the shark, saw him swing over to inspect, and follow at no great distance, their buddy, John Radowich of the Pacific battle fleet, who was trying to swim...
...redecoration of this so-called "secret bed chamber." One good job done, Queen Mary passed to another locked bedroom door. Impassive but expectant the royal attendants waited. Would Her Majesty order that room disturbed? On the bureau had lain undisturbed for more than three decades a little pile of silver and copper coins. They had been left there carelessly by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, before he contracted influenza and died at Sandringham (1892). He, the eldest son of Edward and Alexandra (then Prince and Princess of Wales) was heir presumptive to the British Crown. Moreover...