Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectfully, Bori received rich tributes. In behalf of 200 friends, Mrs. Vincent Astor gave her a diamond brooch which once belonged to Empress Eugénie. For the Metropolitan Opera Guild Mrs. August Belmont presented a gold traveling clock. The Metropolitan directors gave their usual scroll; the chorus, a silver coffee urn; the stage hands, a silver vase; the orchestra, a plaque. Nothing seemed to please Bori more than when Manager Edward Johnson handed her a silver bowl filled with gladioli "from the great Maestro Arturo Toscanini...
...Germany gave her his diamond stickpin crowned with the Hohenzollern crest. Her own sovereign, King Haakon VII of Norway, sends her a telegram or cable before every foreign appearance. And Reichsführer Adolf Hitler this winter invited Sonja and her parents to his Munich abode, gave her a silver-framed picture of himself, talked all evening to her about the importance of sport to the German people...
Although it was held at this time last year, the Class Diving Championships will be postponed until a later date. Competitors in this event try for a silver trophy which was won last year by Robert H. Chase...
...Father Thomay recently took an option on a site for a church, was busy last week with plans for a Byzantine structure to be called St. Ephrem's. Toward its cost, a series of lectures by Father Thomay and a Bazaar to be opened in April commemorating the silver anniversary of his ordination may help...
Those of you who have been plodding faithfully to all the recent run of Dietrich-Von Sternberg films only to glimpse the abundant beauties of the actress and have been gratified in that and in nothing else, have a tinkling, silver treat in store for you. "Desire" gives you a Dietrich as beautiful as ever. But the vehicle itself, being an artistic achievement of the first order, delights by its own shimmering sophistication and gives Marlene, and Gary Cooper too, a splendid opportunity...