Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he declared that his feelings were like those of the mountaineer who went out into the moonlight and falling on his knees, cried: "Oh, Lawd, I ain't got nuthin' again' nobody, no mo'." The Senate sent a diamond bracelet and the House a silver service as wedding presents and that evening before 100 guests in the Blue Room of the White House William Gibbs McAdoo was married to Eleanor Randolph Wilson in a simple five-minute ceremony...
...which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy Parker), cheered itself hoarse after the performance and then adjourned, like most of the cast, to the barroom of the Teller House next door, to which President Grant once made his way over a pavement of silver bricks...
...drawing room to the expensive sort of "courts" Their Majesties hold in London. Wearing no court gear, proud Scotsmen arrived in stiff tartan kilts, squiring their soft-skirted women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch's mother...
...General Göring appeared in a uniform of snow white silk from head to feet. Around his waist was a broad black and silver sash from which hung a red leather holster and a golden dirk of honor. From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...handle of a silver-plated spoon vanished in a shower of sparks...