Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spats, a snap-brim hat, a walking stick. His aspect is impressive, a fine broad forehead, a jutting chin, sharp eyes, hair steely grey. His manner is positive bravado, his voice stentorian, his cigars black. His apostolic jewels are a magnificent row of decorations: from the U. S. a Silver Star (citation in orders); from France, the bronze Medal of Verdun and the cross of the Legion of Honor; the cross of the Crown of Italy, the medal of the Defenders of Poland and the cross of Poland Restored; and from the White Russians, the Order of the Compassionate Heart...
Wrote Scripps-Howard's tart, smart Westbrook Pegler: "There is a sentimental, silver-threads-among-the-gold tradition that people of 60 years and up are uniformly wise and sweet and kind, and also pathetic. There is a conspiracy to write off all the laziness, incompetence, wastefulness and all-around uselessness of which they may have been guilty . . . while they were putting in their time. The Townsend Plan makes no discrimination. It would pension, at the rate of $200 a month, a vast number of itchy old loafers who never were willing to pack their own weight and earn...
...diplomacy as practiced by Benito Mussolini led in Rome last week to an Italo-French entente of first importance for the peace of Europe. Everything was done, from first to last, in a fashion exactly opposite to that favored by the League of Nations and such optimistic conferencophiles as silver-haired, silver-tongued James Ramsay MacDonald...
Pierce Arrow continues to divide its production between aerodynamic "Silver Arrows" and conservative models for conservative customers...
Next the lean, high-strung Generalissimo conferred with his moon-faced low-strung brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, easy-going Finance Minister. Shanghai buzzed with rumors that President Roosevelt's upping of the price of silver was about to force Chiang and Kung to take China's standard dollar off its white metal base...