Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floating" meteor was vigorously described as "blue green about a foot wide with a red tail of red fire 30 feet long," and as "a ball of silver twice the size of a croquet, with a gold tail three yards long." According to an artist sketching on the Ipswich marshes, the meteor landed with a loud thud only a short distance away. A naval officer at Squantum, however, reported that he saw the meteor fall in the middle of Dorchester...
Meanwhile the Duchess* of York, busying herself less royally, set about to direct a score of thick-sinewed titans who swarmed into White Lodge, the pleasant ducal residence at Richmond Park. Under her watchful eye the defter titans packed costly gold and silver plate, shifted it into panting moving vans already piled with trunks and boxes and chugged away...
Three o'clock in the afternoon, tea tables gorgeously bedight with flowers and silver-bedight but quite deserted-an orchestra crooning overhead-and a great crowd of women seizing catalogs surged ahead into the east wing of the Art Institute in Chicago to the opening of the 38th annual exhibit of American painting and sculpture. On the walls of the great chain of rooms hung 110 portrait and figure pieces, 91 landscapes, 18 marines, 16 still life paintings, and here and there on pedestals were scattered 58 pieces of sculpture-exhibits chosen from 1,200 items submitted. The women...
...arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...
...giant Fokker with three motors, upholstered pullman chairs and a baggage room, to Carrier Pigeon Planes not much bigger than dragonflies, rose from the Ford field at Dearborn, Mich., last week for a 1,900-mile trip. Edsel Ford flagged them away. He had put up a large silver trophy for the winner of this "Reliability Test." Planes were judged on the consistency of their performances. They buzzed steadily ahead, not trying for speed but just to see which could stick at it best. At Indianapolis they were met by rain, at Chicago by a cheering crowd. In Omaha Pilot...