Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production. In search of a house for the Connellys Director King and party visited Redcliffe, plantation home of the descendants of Senator James Henry ("Cotton is King") Hammond (1807-64) at Beech Island, S. C. across the Savannah River from Augusta, Ga. Noted were its enormous hall, its silver hardware, its fallen plaster, its air of dingy decay. Outside of Florence, S. C., Director King found the old Johnson plantation house which he had carefully measured and photographed. When he got back to Hollywood he had the outside of the Johnson house reproduced in full scale (see cut) while interior...
...England's great Sir Gerald du Maurier plays a French valet. Catherine the Great, however, is Elizabeth Bergner's play. She is small (102 lb.), gentle, supple but not beautiful. In a blonde wig she is a young Catherine that might have been stamped on a bright silver coin. Possessed of extremely large brown eyes, she looks prettily petite when reviewing her guardsmen in tights. But at last when in a roomful of officers she learns her husband is dead, her wrath and majesty are so great that her stature suddenly seems to increase and dominate...
...President's own handwriting that tribute was engraved on a silver plaque and the plaque presented last week to Walter Joseph Cummings, outgoing chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Its donors were officials of the corporation from which the RFC had plucked Mr. Cummings to represent the Government's majority stock interest in Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. With Mr. Cummings comfortably settled as board chairman and "chief executive" of Continental Illinois, President Roosevelt got around last week to picking his successor as FDIC's chairman. He was a Wisconsin banker named...
Crushingly the silver-haired Scot retorted: "Many thousands who have sacrificed their lives that others might live were inspired by that at which you have sneered...
...first period of last week's game, with the score 1-to-1, ceremonies took place. Diamond signet rings were presented to the famed forwards-Cook-Boucher-&-Cook; to Johnson, defense man who has raised a five-year-old son since that first game in the Garden; to silver-haired Manager Lester Patrick and to weather-beaten little Trainer Harry Westerby. When Murray Murdoch's turn came, there was a special ritual. Out stepped Lou Gehrig, baseball's "iron man," who has played 1,350 consecutive games with the New York Yankees. He presented the ring...