Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silver Jubilee book on the Empire & King, Mr. Buchan achieved his final masterpiece of subtle flattery. When Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett then advised Buckingham Palace that "Mr." Buchan would make a fine Governor-General (part of Canada's reason being that, after 14 peers, the Dominion wanted a commoner), His Majesty proved so oversold on the nomination that he not only made Commoner Buchan his Governor-General but enthusiastically dubbed him Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, then capped this knighthood and vexed many Canadians by raising him to the peerage...
Died. Georg Jensen, 69, Danish silversmith, called by critics the "greatest craftsman in silver for the last 300 years"; in Copenhagen...
...used on the face of the mirrors. No effects of a mercury amalgam was used on the face of the mirrors. No effects of a mercury coating have been discovered, and it has been found that the particular alloy of which they are made will polish to a shiny, silver surface. Replicas of the same alloy are now being made for further experimentation...
...year-old King Gustav V. Pulled out of the bog, His Majesty sucked a bruised finger, quipped "When one is young these things don't matter." William Edward Dodd, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, sent by airplane from Berlin to Moscow a package of hominy grits for silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois recuperating from pneumonia...
...Arms of the University on the other hand, consist of the familiar three open books (silver on white) with covers, clasps, and edges (gold or yellow) and the letters VE RI TAS on the books in black. The background is bright, clear...