Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed odd to aspirants in various parts of the U. S. who have been turned down for this year's Silver Jubilee Courts that three slips of girls from Atlanta, Georgia, two of the sub-deb age, should be presented at Buckingham Palace by sweet-faced Mrs. Bingham. Last week the reason seemed clear and harmless to a degree. In the line of duty Their Majesties are prepared to receive almost any female against whom nothing is positively known and who is sponsored by her country's envoy. In the South good Squire Bingham has few cronies closer than Judge...
...increasingly drastic mood, Il Duce ordered Italians to surrender all silver coins in their possession for paper, his Government requiring the silver to pay campaign expenses in Africa where blackamoors remain unshakably convinced that no kind of paper money is any good...
After the judges had heard all the contestants they awarded a silver cup and the U. S. train-calling championship to Rock Island's Barrowcliffe for his rendering of the following call...
There was no ceremony as. under cloudless skies, the huge silver Pan American Clipper rose from the waters of San Francisco Bay, headed off on her second flight to Honolulu. The trip had been purposely delayed to await a storm forecast-a test of the Clipper's mettle. That night the great Sikorsky flew under cloudy skies over the rough Pacific until at dawn the light of Makapu Point reached out across Koneohe Bay. Then Oahu Bay appeared and First Officer Sullivan set her 19 tons down lightly in Pearl Harbor...
...color in the procession came with the twenty-year class, who were white pants, green blazers, and white painters' hats with green visors. They were trailed by the Class of 1920, who were led by a special band, all dressed in army uniform with army tin hats painted with silver. The class members were dressed in orange coats, white trousers, and bright overseas caps...