Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trophy, which is to be given annually to the house which gets the highest rating in House athletic competitions during the year, was offered this spring to the Houses by Percy S. Straus '97. It is in the form of a large silver coffee urn, of fine design in Sheffield silver, and worthy of a prominent position in a House common room...
With the money in his pocket, Gypo, instead of completing his plan, goes on an astounding nightmare spree. He gulps down a bottle of whiskey. At the McPhillip wake, he astounds Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing...
...SILVER RATTLE-Sylvia Thompson- Little, Brown...
...ambition (in real life she is Mrs. Theodore Dunham Luling) to have six children, innumerable friends, no ugly furniture. By last week only two of the children had materialized, but her eight novels were a brood of legitimate offspring most mother-authors would be proud of. Her latest, A Silver Rattle, keeps up the high family average. As in Breakfast in Bed, Author Thompson's narrative method is centrifugal: her story is less a novel than a series of related pictures, not always in chronological order. But for modern readers who are not easily flustered by cinema technique...
Says one of her Edwardian cake-eaters, "Every baby ought to have a silver rattle." Not all the children in this story were so lucky. When Francesca married Adrian it was a love-match, and their son Robin was no accident. But Adrian was such a drifter that Francesca finally cut loose from him, tied up to the solider character of Frederick. The child of their marriage was born not only to comfort but security. From the triumphantly peaceful room where Francesca lies with her infant daughter the story reaches out into surrounding space and time: to unhappy Adrian, drifting...