Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago but five of the original group assembled, including in their number Adam Marty. This year 34 places were set as usual, shining with bright silver and glassware. In the center of the table, amid the decorations, rested the consecrated bottle. Thirty chairs were draped with black, among them Adam Marty's. One survivor was too decrepit to make the journey from his Florida home. But three men dined where once 34 had supped. Too soon will the bottle's cork be pulled...
Into the garden where clustered a whimpering lad, his pale mother, a few niched apples and a Seventh Day Adventist missionary there came a maid servant. In her hand she held a bottle of silver nitrate which the missionary, C. A. Haysmeir, had bid her fetch. The pale Korean mother glossed her son's felony with imploring tears. But Missionary Haysmeir picked up the brush portentously. He dipped it into the bottle of scarifying chemical...
...What did a missionary do with silver nitrate...
...Poictesme, after the passing of that brave grey rascal, Dom Manuel, from his castle at Storisende, and during the adolescence of Coth's prying young son, Jurgen, is a faintly tiresome recital of disappointments, frustrations, pedantic sorceries and middle-aged bawdinesses among the nine remaining Knights of the Silver Stallion, who disband perforce and go to their destinies as their leader has gone...
...chapter called "Wasted Land" goes back to the last appearance of the Midwest's last purple people, the Dalton boys of Coffeyville, Kan. ... "A tall, harshly beautiful young man" (W. J. Bryan) comes out of Nebraska to be the Silver Knight; pallid Altgeld governs Illinois; Andrew Carnegie's detectives shoot strikers at Homestead, Pa.; solid Mark Hanna quietly bosses Cleveland; Coxey's army marches. . . . "California fruits and heiresses appeared seasonably in New York and were absorbed," but Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce are supplied by the same place...