Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsreel library in the Empire was ransacked. When The Story of the Reign of His Majesty the King was ready last week it had cost $500,000- cheap enough for a film that was to stir loyal hearts in every part of the Empire during His Majesty's silver jubilee next spring...
...Canadian papers conjectured whether George St. Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby was likely to burst out crying during the Speech from the Throne, seemed to rather hope he would. Instead the Babe proved himself a Bessborough, did nothing, said nothing, with dignity. Lady Bessborough, gowned by Maggy Rouff in blue and silver lame. made an able substitute Queen Mary, her throat roped with pearls, her head regally supporting a tiara. In legal fiction the Governor General became "the actual person of the King in Canada" when he took the gilded Throne, attended by handsome young Court pages who seated themselves gracefully upon...
Last week Chinese merchants and businessmen were frantically protesting that President Roosevelt's policy of hiking the world price of silver makes it impossible for them to settle their debts in silver as usual on New Year's. Since silver is China's only medium of exchange, Chinese chambers of commerce sent bales of petitions to Nanking, begged their Government to give them at least temporary relief from Roosevelt by announcing that Settlement Day is postponed for one year. Until very recently the Nanking Government's prestige was far too low for chambers of commerce...
...Francisco again. Sembrich was frightened, too. But she stayed to give a concert, earned over $10,000 which she divided between the choristers and the orchestra players who lost their instruments. When Sembrich sang her farewell three years later the orchestramen, remembering her generosity, gave her a silver loving...
...General Motor's new Turret-Top is featured particularly in the Pontiac. Also included are the following; improved knee-action, special hydraulic brakes, silver alloy bearings, improved ventilation and cooling, electro-plated pistons and a radiator grille that apparently runs right over the top of the hood into the windshield...