Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good citizens in various walks of life pondered for a few moments last week upon a series of bronze, silver and gold disks now widely distributed throughout the world. On one side of the disks are stamped the name of a, hero, a map of North America, and the Coats of Arms of the U. S., Canada and Newfoundland, together with the inscription, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." On the other side is stamped a likeness of famed philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The discs are the Carnegie Hero Medals...
...whole people recall at this sad hour her majestic beauty, her venerable silver hair, her untiring charity, her austere composure in sorrow, her fervent love of the fatherland and her exquisite sensitiveness as a queen and woman...
...Fitter Families." At midwestern state fairs, competitions are being held with blue ribbons and silver cups as prizes, for families who submit themselves to examination by physicians, geneticists, psychiatrists, dentists, oculists, for ratings in family health, history and heredity. Pedigrees are also worked out noncompetitively, "fitter families" being the slogan of the movement, as explained by Dr. Florence Brown Sherbon, University of Kansas, before the Association...
...blue Mediterranean and the bluer Adriatic seemingly lapped idly along the sunny shores of lower Italy. Beneath mystical cypresses and spreading palms, fountains splashed with silver sound, and the scent of many flowers lay upon the air. Sleek and graceful bodies gleamed through the foliage, all at rest yet all poised in the fleetness of arrested motion. It was a spot and a sight created for the pleasure of a multitude, and a multitude, the automobile-loving public of Manhattan and thereabouts, prepared...
Roman Catholics in the U. S. turned their hearts and thoughts with extraordinary awe last week to Rome, meekly regretting their inability to be there in person the day before Christmas to see His Holiness Pius XI close with his own hands, with a jeweled trowel of ivory and silver spread mortar and set stones to close the Holy Door in the portico of St. Peter's magnificent basilica on the 23rd Jubilee Year of the Catholic Church. The closing ceremonies were gorgeous, drawing some 70,000 clerics and lay people into St. Peter's itself, and many thousands...