Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of a spoon braced between his two chop-sticks. This feat excited envy throughout the dining hall, and the demand for chop-sticks became acute. A committee approached Mrs. Smith, the headwaitress, and guaranteed to donate the necessary funds, if chopsticks might be supplied in place of silver for all who wished them. Mrs. Smith referred the committee to Housemaster Greenough, who after investigating the cost and utility of chopsticks, agreed to the proposal...
...floor. Her sibilant voice was gushing in his ear. "Y'know, I'm a delegate from Latvia, but I haven't been to a single meeting. I've been up in a fellow's room in the Law School since Thursday afternoon." A blank-faced silver-spangled gown cut in. He executed a delicate...
...Nevada, the San Francisco Mining Exchange was the vortex of a feverish speculative mining boom that burned the land or two decades after the Civil War. During the 1870's while the Floods, Mackays, O'Briens, et al. were plucking some $750,000,000 in gold and silver from the Comstock Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock on the mining list. Bell Isle was whirled from obscurity to $5.25 a share...
Second of the Crown Prince's sons is Prince Sigvard Oscar Frederick, Duke of Uppland, Chevalier of the Order of the Seraphim. As soon as this moody youth had finished his military service he began hovering on the edge of the arts, as decorator, actor, designer of silver cocktail sets and finally as a fairly able assistant cinema director with UFA in Berlin. On the UFA lot he met a little blonde girl named Erika Patzek, born a Pole and a Catholic, who loved to dance and drive fast in her own orange-colored sport roadster. Her father...
...high altar. In time of stress the Blessed Sacrament is the priest's first concern. In Toledo one night last week Rev. Francis J. Keyes hastened into his church, St. Patrick's. The tabernacle containing the ciborium and Host was gone. So were gold and silver vessels worth $3,000-thuribles (censers), other ciboria, a gold-&-onyx crucifix, a pyx (watch-shaped case for carrying the Sacrament to the sick). Three marauders, whom Father Reyes's housekeeper had seen sneaking out of the church, had spilled holy oil from leaden containers, pried the tabernacle from its carved...