Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold casket. When it was opened it contained a brand new vest-pocket-size dollar, desired by many inflationists. Silverites soon began to clamor for a second precious casket from the White House. For a long time the President demurred. Last week to keep the peace he sent a silver casket to the Capitol. When Congressmen lifted the lid, they found its contents to be: three sops, a new tax, and some consoling generalities. There is also a tradition that he who chooses a silver casket "shall get as much as he deserves." Most silverites in Congress professed...
Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, May 28--Dog tired, two valiant French airmen brought their huge silver monoplane out of blue skies onto Floyd Bennett airport today, defeated by motor trouble in their ambitions attempt to link Paris and California...
...PUZZLE OF THE SILVER PERSIAN- Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Miss Hildegarde Withers does her prying entirely alone, on a transatlantic liner, in a London hotel, in an ancient castle; wins an invitation from Scotland Yard...
Lost--At or near Harvard Square, lady's silver watch and fob. Finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving same at a Garden street, Cambridge...
Kirkland is the only club to have gone entirely through its schedule, and this they did without dropping a single contest. So they win the silver mug this year without any dispute whatsoever from any source. The deacons, however, did meet a plenty tough snag, when the Bulldogs came up here last Friday and mangled them to the tune...