Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cordons of police vainly attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted from the desire of numerous women to touch the silver casket of "the girl who was too beautiful to live." Five women fainted, were carried into the funeral parlors to be revived. Men and boys screeched and shouted from treetops, sign boards, roofs...
Perhaps Helen Wills is keeping a diary of what she does these sunny days at Cannes. It is rumored that she makes entries every evening in a large notebook bound in red morocco and fitted with a silver clasp-lock, whose contents a U. S. publisher has contracted to bring out in the fall. If Miss Wills is really writing a diary, her many admirers are likely to read it more for its probable charm than in the expectation of finding out anything new about her, for the newspapers have reported her activities so elaborately that what she puts...
...valiant King Albert I of the Belgians, received last week a sprig of 19 roses, roses that smelled sweetly of balsam and musk, the gracious appreciation of a noble woman held in high esteem by His Holiness Pius XI, who was born Achille Ratti, a papal gift for her silver wedding anniversary. The roses were artificial and constituted the famed Golden Rose...
...respect only has the veteran vehicle been changed. In place of the fashionable figures of personified speed which adorn the radiator caps of modern automobiles, the new owner with a sense of the appropriate has chosen for his motif a large silver snail with a minature Rip Van Winkle astride his back...
...risking his own life in saving two young boys who had broken through the ice of Leverett Pond on December 26, W. M. Austin '25, former, Crimson hockey star, has been awarded a silver medal, the Massachusetts Humane Society's greatest honor for courage, it was announced last night...