Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlike the publicity-mad deities apotheosized nowadays by ogling mayors at all-American beauty contests, Miss Anna Willess Williams sought to keep it a secret when she posed for Engraver George Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge...
...total coinage of this, the standard silver dollar, under...
...hawk anything he chose except fish, fruit or vegetables. Mr. Mencken promised not to violate these provisions, received his license. Arthur Garfield Hays telephoned Dr. Chase and asked him if he would buy an American Mercury if Mr. Mencken offered one for sale. It was Dr. Chase's silver coin that Editor Mencken popped into his mouth...
...wall of bricks somewhat jagged at one end President Coolidge approached, took a trowel and spread some additional plaster with difficulty. "It won't spread well", he remarked with a trace of annoyance. Then he stood back to survey the cornerstone he had laid, put aside the silver trowel...
...Thereafter, whenever the moon was not full, Mr. Brown almost daily caused his chef to heat large panfuls of gold and silver coins as hot as possible on the galley stove. The beggars of Brightlingsea, anxious to humor his whims, appeared in rowboats and caught the coins in their bare hands as Mr. Brown hurled the bits of gold and silver overboard with a shovel. If the beggars attempted to use gloves, he hurled boiling water upon them instead. When the moon was full, he hurled nothing at all. Occasionally he wrapped lumps of coal in £100 notes...