Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listen, his small brown face screwed into a mask of naive anticipation. Nobody else moved. Behind him the burgesses of Salzburg listened respectfully; his Abbot sat upon his right; in front of him his four sturdy bastards awaited God's next word in a glitter of green and silver buckram. That was in the year . . . Nothing much had changed. Once more sunset powdered with golden dust the Cathedral Square of Salzburg; once more the monks looked down from their barred windows; once more, on a bare plank stage, God, the Father, in false hair delivered the speech that begins...
...scheduled to make trial flights along the Atlantic seaboard. Then, three motors thundering, tricouleur and Stars-and-Stripes whipping, she will dare greatly, her three intrepid manipulators tense at their posts in a cabin which, with true Gallic esprit, le Capitaine Fonck has had decorated in gold, silver, cream and mahogany...
...spectacle-dented. Chin-overfleshed, strong. Cheeks-pads. Hands-puffy, unroughened. Body-well-fed. Legs-thick. Feet-plump. Expression in slumber-babyish. Expression in thought-"gets things done." General expression - extremely married, prosperous. Clothes - standard, brown or gray; white piping in vest. (He would feel naked without fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted or tapestry with stringless brown harps among blown palms; snakehead stickpin with opal eyes. Jewelry-Boosters' Club lapel button; elk-tooth watch-chain pendant. Spectacles-huge, frameless, with gold ear-crooks. Shoes-black, laced, uninteresting.-ED. Pessimist...
...pocket memo had added $70,000,000 to the stock market valuation of General Motors shares. Wise men of Wall Street assumed that Reporter Nicholls was no fool, that he had at least converted the information of his interview into a substantial nest egg, that his progeny would have silver spoons in their mouths. Otherwise, why had he not turned in his story before 10 a. m. when the Stock Exchange opened, instead of waiting until almost noon? Thereupon, Kenneth C. Hogate, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, announced that he had investigated Reporter Nicholl's story, that...
...Korean tribunal sentenced Missionary C. A. Haysmeir to three years in jail because he had painted "Thief" on the cheeks of a little native boy who had sinned. The painting was done with silver nitrate, permanent. All good Seventh Day Adventists deplored the work of their missionary, dismissed him from service. The incident created a great furore in Korean and Asiatic circles; even in the U. S. people noted forcibly the words: Seventh Day Adventists. History. A few New Englanders, formerly devout First-Day Adventists, began in 1844 to observe the seventh day of the week (Saturday) as the Sabbath...