Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cargo which dripped down the sides in streamers and sheets. These were trimmed off by a furnaceman with a long hook as the ladlemen walked the dipper over to the mold, popped it through a door in the beehive, poured in 400 Ib. of glass turning from gold to silver as it cooled...
...Brooklyn Church one Sunday in 1848, a fiery young preacher stood at his pulpit, gesturing at a handsome mulatto girl who sat near him on the platform. Cried he: ''This is a marketable commodity! Such as she are put into one balance and silver into the other. I reverence woman. For the sake of the love I bore my mother I hold her sacred even in the lowest position and will use every means in my power for her uplifting. What will you do now? May she read her liberty in your eyes? Shall she go out free...
...sterling silver bowl has been received as an anonymous gift, to be awarded to the player who each year excels in forward passing. The Roger W. Cutler Trophy, which will be given to the best punter, has been donated by Roger W. Cutler '11. The third trophy which is to be known as the S. V. R. Crosby Trophy, and which will be given to the player who has done the best job in drop-kicking, has been donated by Stephen V. R. Crosby...
...discussion of U. S. playwrighting begins with Eugene O'Neill. Bunched close together below him are Philip Barry, Maxwell Anderson and Sidney Howard. Like them, Howard does not write a hit at every sitting. Since They Knew What They Wanted, only three (Alien Corn, The Silver Cord, The Late Christopher Bean} of his ten plays have been financially successful. Unlike O'Neill, Anderson or Barry, Playwright Howard is not above working in Hollywood, where he has never written a failure. His adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star...
...introduction tot he Jews entitled "How Odd of God", Lewis Browne has left the proof reading to his publishers and gone off to the South Seas to forget all about the "Jewish problem". I want to go some place", he writes, "Where no one wears brown shirts, or silver ones, or indeed any shirts at all." He expects to spend several weeks cruising in Polynesia, and will return in time to keep a series of lecture engagements in the last of April...