Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Struthers Burt was there, and Fannie Hurst, William Rose Benét, Margaret Widdemer, Burton Rascoe, Henry Seidel Canby. Many a guest had won a gold or silver badge or at least honorable mention for a snapshot, drawing or bit of verse published by "St. Nicholas League." Equally distinguished were the invited guests who sent regrets. Among them: Carolyn Wells ("who probably wrote more for St. Nicholas than anyone you know"); Laurence Stallings (who "was never a contributor to St. Nicholas and spent most of my time reading trashy literature"); Phil Stong (who in boyhood was a "veteran Youth...
Divorced. Mrs. Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith, daughter of Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, heiress to Vanderbilt and Fair (silver) fortunes; from Earl Edward Tailer Smith, Manhattan broker whom she married in 1926; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
Though Skagway was his last resting place, Denver still remembers Jefferson Randolph Smith as one of the most picaresque figures of its bad old days. A slight, dapper, persuasive man, with a silver tongue and a front of brass, his original racket was selling soap on the street. He sold two kinds: in one pile an ordinary "miracle-working" soap, at 25? a cake; in the other, bars at five dollars, whose wrappers enfolded an occasional banknote. The crowd of suckers could see Soapy wrapping his wares in real money, sometimes a $50 bill, but somehow none but his confederates...
...Creede he set up business in a modest way, running a shell game. His organizing ability, nerve and personal charm soon made him boss of that lawless town. When the Sherman Silver Act was repealed and the bottom dropped out of the silver market, Soapy went back to Denver and started a high-class gambling house. He called it "an educational institution! The famous Keeley institute provides a cure for the drinking habit. At the Tivoli I have a cure for the gambling habit. The man who steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor...
...afterwards rebuked by the Navy Department for retailing in a public speech) that Mussolini was a hit-&-run driver, asserts that he was in the car when II Duce, going 90 m. p. h. around a sharp curve, ran over a child and refused to stop. The late silver-tongued Lord Balfour may well writhe in his grave at Author Vanderbilt's alleged quotation of him: "A war's a war and a fool's a fool and all that sort of rot, but a chap should not go around sinking the auxiliary floating hospitals...