Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unusually luxurious limousine standing in front of Manhattan's luxurious Sherry-Xetherland Hotel fortnight ago attracted the attention of a smart New York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold...
...retired Manhattan lawyer named Edward Bruce. He holds no important portfolio, has no mouth-filling title, draws no fancy salary. Yet he works well and hard for his friend in the White House by giving special advice to the State and Treasury Departments. As an expert on silver, he accompanied the U. S. delegation to the ill-starred London Economic Conference last June...
Concerts might be shoes or silver polish for the systematic, hardheaded way they are merchandised in the U. S. New York managers are the wholesalers, local managers the retailers. Sound business means two things: the New York manager has been able to sell a substantial number of dates; and the local managers have been able to sell a sufficient number of seats to make them want to buy again. Artists' fees are lower this year with a few exceptions. So are seats. Bookings are bigger than the New York managers expected. Lily Pons had to turn down 40 dates...
...Wednesday evening, after the Dunster House dinner, Dr. Robert Gale Noyes will direct "The Second Shepherd's Play," with a cast starring Walter W. Birge '35, Lawrence von B. Nichols '35, Robert C. Phillips '34, Gordon F. Robertson '36 and Francis F. Silver '34. The production is a medieval English miracle play from the Townley cycle...
...advocate retires giving thanks. The choir bursts into a mighty Te Deum. All the churches in Rome send up a joyful pealing of bells. The Pope sings Mass, during which he accepts offerings from his cardinals-candles, loaves, silver and gold casks of water and wine, three cages of doves, sparrows, finches and larks, which set up a melodious cooing and twittering throughout St. Peter...