Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imperceptibly the silver-haired, silver-tongued Evangelist-politician's popularity has ebbed away. The throng which gathered to see him quit No. 10 Downing St. after a longer tenure of power than any other Prime Minister since Mr. Asquith consisted last week of exactly ten frumpy women-the type that can be seen in London waiting for the emergence of any celebrity from Princess Marina to Polly Moran. Thin indeed was their cheer, but, fortunately for himself, James Ramsay MacDonald is a Scotsman. His inner light has always burned brighter than adversity, criticism or contempt. Like all Scots...
...Silver, Slaverings & Solutions...
...from four months of exploration in the little known regions of Yukon territory, Alaska, H. Adams Carter of Dunster House, Ex-President of the Mountaineering Club, reported yesterday that the National Geographic-Washburn Expedition had discovered four or five mountains hitherto unknown and uncharted. In memory of England's Silver Jubilee, two of the mountains were named King George and Queen Mary...
Most of the good people of Orange, Tex. were in their beds when into the Silver Slipper roadhouse strode a 6 ft. 2 in., 220 lb. man brandishing two pistols and displaying a Texas Ranger's badge. The Orange revelers recognized him as Rev. Edgar Eskridge, 40, hard-hitting Baptist crusader, stern critic of local law enforcement...
...room where he operated. Another put a mattress and a clean sheet on a long wooden table, a couple of wooden buckets alongside and on a side table a basin of warm water. Handy were the heavy knives and other instruments Dr. McDowell operated with, the bayonet-like needles, silver suture wire, waxed thread for ligatures. Nothing was sterilized, for Lister's and Pasteur's work was still 60-70 years in the future...