Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insider was Robert Maestri, Louisiana Conservation Commissioner. Between him and the Kingfish existed complete understanding and a private joke. When Long was elected Governor in 1928 a New Orleans publisher collected a fund to buy him a set of table silver. Mr. Maestri's check, however, was righteously returned because nice people looked askance at the source of his family's fortune. Thereupon Mr. Maestri purchased a $2,500 emerald & diamond scarf pin for the Governor which the Governor wore and laughed about all over the State...
From the stair pillars frown two enormous busts composed of seven kinds of marble and believed to represent unidentified Arabian characters. Another treasure is the largest piece of Dresden pottery in the world. Dazzling curtains from Baghdad, authentic 18th Century French and Turkish furniture, and a display of solid silver plate bought by Sir Samuel's grandfather a century ago adorn a ménage which the Hoares find cozy...
...Josiah was elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the coming year. Sir Josiah promptly proved that this honor had not changed him in the slightest by delivering a discourse which he has been delivering elsewhere lately on the dark lining behind the silver cloud of British economic recovery. "I do not think," said he, "that our present building boom can last much longer...
...through There's a Tavern in the Town which was handsomely embellished with "swipes"?passages in which the first tenor holds the melody while the lower voices move in opposite directions in the scale. For their performance, appearance and deportment the Bay City Four took first prize, four silver shaving mugs. Second and third prizes went to the Rubsam & Horrmann brewery quartet, fixed up as bartenders, and the Early Birds from Borden Co., who appeared as milkmen...
...King bestowed the gold-plated solid silver badge of an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on the physician of His Majesty's quintuplet wards, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe...