Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlining of his plan the Harvard President mentioned those who were able to enter a University through "accidents of birth." Members of the silver spoon class upon graduation enter into American business and public life and in most cases have little need for much of the formal training they now receive. Higher education has not yet been directed at them, but they pay the bills and help support the college...
...message to the Chamber of Commerce (see p. 65) the President himself made the point that ''it is time to stop calling 'wolf.' " He continued to turn a polite but unyielding ear to the radical inflation proposals of the silver bloc. More specific, Representative Pettengill told the House that the essentials of the stockmarket control bill dated back 25 years to Charles E. Hughes's proposals when he was Governor of New York. And the President's friend, Raymond Moley, took occasion in an address to the Advertising Club of New York to belittle...
...group of white canvas-clad figures went into a huddle and yelled: "Hip, hip, hurray, America!" Promptly another huddle formed on the other side of the platform and yelled: "Hip, hip, hurray, Great Britain!" Then 19 U. S. and ten British fencers were given medals. The British got silver ones. The U. S. team got gold ones and a delicately fashioned bronze representing Hector and Achilles, because they had just won the Col. Robert M. Thompson Trophy. In the summer of 1920 at Antwerp, the British Olympic fencing team and the U. S. team sat down to dinner. Over wine...
...Consideration of silver only by international agreement...
...DREAMER-Julian Green-Harper ($2.50). Another depressing, well-written psychological novel by a morbid author of the introspective school. FIVE SILVER DAUGHTERS-Louis Golding-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). What the profit and loss of war and marriage did to five sisters; a post-War novel on a big scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel...