Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever its sins and indiscretions, the velocipede deserves no such tyrannical treatment. From Dunster House to Divinity the clicking of the chain and the whirring of the silver spokes are forever silenced, and Fascism has thrust its iron fist into the Yard for the first time. The insidious forces of United Shoe Machinery, General Motors, and Standard Oil, hurling the lie at those who said it couldn't happen here, have made a vital stab at the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity...
...hard to got along without. His take is simple and though unevenly paced it has its moments. A quiet, solid little tourists home is thrown into an uproar of delicious confusion when the unexpected guest sweeps in the alluring form of Carole Arden, the luscious temptress of the silver screen. Miss Arden seems to be on a tour of personal appearances which has been interrupted by the breakdown of her ivory Issota...
...very easy to get for trifling projects but almost impossible to get for anything worthwhile. . . . It is harder for me to get 5? to buy a lead pencil than to get $1,000 to teach hobbies to CCC boys. . . . At the present time there is a vast flow of silver-I won't say gold-spreading out all over the country like mud. . . . For God's sake put some of it into stone and steel...
...publicize the planting of an avenue of cherry trees leading to the birthplace of George Washington near Fredericksburg, Va., oldtime Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson undertook to throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, thus duplicating the legendary feat of the youthful Washington. Promptly New York's noisy Representative Sol Bloom, Director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed...
...What about the gallon of Bacardi you got last week?" asked a knowing member of the press as he examined the label on the expensive stogy. "Smiling Jim" merely smiled again and adroitly changed the subject by slapping a silver dollar on the table...