Word: silver
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...silver trophy was presented to ex-Coach R. T. Fisher '12, last evening by the 1926 football a quad at a dinner at the Varsity Club. The trophy is nine inches in height and in the form of a football player. The figure of the man is of silver and the square base is of dark mahogany...
...Tibetans the expedition was held up by a religious ceremony which involved supplications and sacrifices to a living man believed to be a reincarnation of Buddha himself. The deity was induced to pose for my camera and I was able to bring back a living record for the silver screen...
...colection, which has been placed on display is a copy of "Silex Scintillans", by Henry Vaughan, Silurist, published in 1650. This work by the well known English religious poet is bound in heavy green leather with designs traced in gold. In the center of the outer cover is a silver medallion. The following is a complete list of the authors on exhibition: John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Stanley, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Taylor, George Wither, Frances Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Giles Fletcher the Younger, Sir William Davenant, James Harrington...
...Kahn, President of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera Company; with Otto Hermann Kahn and Mayor Albert I. Beach of Kansas City; with Otto Kahn and Mayor Beach and Father Talley and Mother Talley and Sister Talley and a few favored delegates. There were speeches and a silver plaque presented by W. Frank Gentry in behalf of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. There were pressmen thirsty for new paragraphs to spin out their human interest story. Was she thrilled? No, she was a thrill-less person, she guessed. Had she been frightened? No. How did she feel...
...five. François de Valois shy, timid, bilious weakling, married her at Notre Dame when she was 16. Brantôme says she was more beautiful than a goddess. Ronsard du Bellay and De Maisonfleur wrote poems for her, over which she wept. She wore blue velvet, embroidered with silver lilies. A year later François was King of France, and Mary's devoted slave; after a reign of 16 months she was a widow...