Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death with her silver-slippered feet, Do you hear her walk by your...
Died. Ruth Echo Silver Dollar Tabor, 30, youngest daughter of the late millionaire U. S. Senator from Colorado, H. W. A. Tabor; in Chicago, in a room which she and an unknown man had taken as "Mr. and Mrs. Norman," of burns sustained when a kettle of boiling water overturned. "Silver Dollar" was added to her name by W. J. Bryan, of whom Senator Tabor was a staunch supporter. Said her sister, one Mrs. John Last, wife of a wealthy Milwaukee business man: "I have never approved of my sister's life ... I can see no reason...
...features of the meeting was an exhibit in the Kosais Temple of dental appurtenances. One hundred and sixty-four firms made displays. Dental tools, dental chairs, gold and silver for fillings, devices and contrivances, including the universally dreaded ogre of the modern world?the buzzing drills that find tender spots in all civilized mouths. The exhibit because of the precious metals included, was valued at $2,000,000 and eight detectives guarded it night...
...fast. Rosa conveyed to the big fisherman that she was sorry, but . . . Soon he was "Benoni" again to everyone. He gave Mack notice for his mortgage money but went on working with him. He had to. Mack knew business, Benoni nothing. By chance Benoni learned there were lead and silver along a stretch of shore. He cared nothing for that. He wanted the rocks for fish-drying and bought them for one hundred dollars. Came a testy Englishman, with a mineralogist. While stupid Benoni fumbled for answers, the Englishman bid up to twenty thousand. Benoni's staggering imagination doubled...
When the Shenandoah, disemboweled like a silver minnow, fell into the Ohio valley, every newspaper in the U. S.-with one exception-shrieked in huge disaster headlines the record of that happening. Not since election day had such exclamatory "spreads" appeared on front pages. But one newspaper realized that constraint, in the face of enormous happenings, is more startling than noise; that gravity appalls more than exclamation points. This sheet, the Miami Herald, give the Shenandoah story a simple "one column" head and followed this clipped announcement with an account which ran without a break for 16 columns (two pages...