Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King of Arms; the four Pursuivants, namely Bluemantle, Portcullis, Rouge Croix and Rouge Dragon; the Herald of York, the Herald of Windsor, the Herald of Richmond, the Herald of Chester, the Herald of Somerset and the Herald ,of Lancaster; two mace bearers and the workaday state heralds who raised silver trumpets and blew a triple flourish...
...cold" (bronchitis) only five days after catching it. His eldest son, the Duke of Clarence, died of a bad cold within a week of catching it. Therefore Edward VII's second son came to the Throne as George V, aged 44. Last week His Majesty, having celebrated his Silver Jubilee last year, was taken with a bad cold (bronchial catarrh). Five days later he was dead...
...time of the recent Silver Jubilee very nearly every newsorgan in the world exhaustively reviewed the lives of King George and Queen Mary and the events of their 25-year reign. As Privy Councilors journeyed down to Sandringham and prepared to "put the crown in a commission" (i. e. establish a Council of State to act for George V as was done during his 1928-29 illness), the nation and the world watched ever more intently Their Majesties' eldest son. At Sandringham the Clerk of the Privy Council, Sir Maurice Hankey, handed the order establishing the Council of State...
Apparently underlying last week's vague uneasiness were two things: 1) Re-emergence of the Administration's policy as the dominant business news. Agitated were businessmen by the Bonus, the Budget, AAA substitutes, recent flutters in the dollar; the new mysteries of silver, which declined last week to 44¼? per oz., approximately the price when Silver Purchase Act was signed in 1934; Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's estimated need for $11,000,000,000 in new and refunding money in the next 17 months; the resignation of T. Jefferson Coolidge as Undersecretary of the Treasury...
...hats and helmets, flowing wigs and well-worn shoes. From her rigid retirement in nearby Bronxville, Mme Olive Fremstad at 63 had emerged to sell the glamorous trappings which represented her years of triumphs. She presided over the exhibit with all her oldtime manner, fingered with wistful pride the silver cape she had worn as Elsa, the shiny helmet that had been hers as Brünnhilde, the regal white train in which she had swept the stage as Isolde...