Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public is of the opinion that a candidate may be defeated, then, in the lexicon of politics, it becomes a possibility that he can be beaten. Last fortnight the silver-haired ex-diplomat, Henry Prather Fletcher, who has been far from a diplomatic success as Republican National Chairman, marched to the microphone, as he has not done in months, and cried over the air: "It has been wisecracked that you cannot eat the Constitution. You can't, nor can you eat the Bible, or the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments, or the deed to your property, or your...
...Thundered "Shame! Shame!" as Conservative M. P.'s charged that in Manchester a school inspector had reproved 12-year-old Maud Mason for "old fashioned imperialism" when she wrote on the occasion of His Majesty's Silver Jubilee: "England is only a small country but it is better than any other country because it has a good King and Queen to reign over...
This was followed by unconfirmed rumors that No. 23 Wall St. had talked with No. 10 Downing St. about stabilizing the world's currencies and bringing the fantastically kited price of silver to lower levels. In the House of Commons innuendoes were hurled by Labor M. P.'s, who now smell "munitions" in everything, that Banker Morgan had somehow turned up in the interest of Merchants of Death...
...Inside one hazel nut lie 3,000 silver spoons, all beaten by the skillful hand of Ah King, Canton silversmith...
...Panama's valiant little President Harmodio Arias with his personal check for the $2,500 bail. The chuckleheaded court constable refused it. President Arias sent out a detail of his own police to cash a check of Publisher Rounsevell's. They returned with 250 lb. in silver pesos, which the court constable was obliged to accept...