Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just show me any body that is entirely perfect and I will show you, an Angel floating in the stratusphere, with a golden harp, and a pair of silver wings and an old fashioned night shirt. JOHN V. CAFFREY Denver, Colo...
...limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir under most of the State. By drilling wells to the limestone, water can be tapped and in many places brought to the surface like a stream from a firehose. So much water flows through the limestone that, for example, Silver Springs, close to Ocala, pours out 400,000,000 gal. per day, about as much as New York City consumes in 24 hours...
...TIME, Feb. 3),"that this unfurnished stage represents the scene of the picturesque garden of the Prime Minister, Wang Yun." When he appears, Wang promptly makes it known that he has two sons-in-law, Wei, the Tiger General and Su, the Dragon General, and three daughters, Golden Stream, Silver Stream and the maidenly Precious Stream (Helen Chandler). The last gives him much trouble because, instead of picking out a prince for a husband, her choice lights on Hsieh (Bramwell Fletcher), her family's handsome and capable gardener. The lovers are banished from Wang's house, whereupon...
...Manhattan's handsome Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, many a Catholic went last week to venerate the church's latest acquisition. Exposed during a solemn novena was a gilded silver reliquary containing a finger joint of St. Vincent Ferrer-one of the largest major relics extant of a man who was one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), of knightly Spanish birth, belonged to the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). For 50 years he lived austerely, declined all honors. With middle age came Vincent Ferrer's renown as a wonder worker...
...House, inflationists and silverites loudly demanded new currency by the billion to pay the Government's bills. Schemes ranged from use of the $3,000,000,000 of "greenbacks" authorized in the so-called Thomas Amendment to the 1933 Emergency Farm Relief Bill, to the issuance of silver certificates against the mountain of silver acquired by the Treasury since 1934. And there was a fresh cry for spending the so-called "gold profit," now safely locked up in the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund. Meantime the 59? dollar sank for three weeks straight in international exchange. Last week...