Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alice's impression that it was she, not her mother, who christened the Meteor. In dark blue velvet, large picture hat, sable boa and muff, with a black ribbon inscribed "Yacht Meteor" in gold on her left sleeve, she firmly seized a bottle of White Seal champagne (in silver net to catch glass splinters), swatted it cleanly against the ship's side and with a little silver hatchet chopped, in one chop, the heading cord. Prince Henry cabled to his imperial brother: "The yacht christened by the hand of Miss Roosevelt just launched in the presence of brilliant...
Star delegates of the Conference were silver-haired, sweetly reasonable U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Mexico's darkling, pugnacious Foreign Minister Puig Casauranc, high-powered salesman of the idea that there ought to be a Spanish American League of Nations to "offset" the Yankees and Canadians. Uruguayan Communists let Senor Casauranc alone-though Mexico does not recognize the Soviet Union-but strewed the path of the U. S. Secretary of State with leaflets reading "Down with Bandit Hull! Down with Yankee Imperialism...
...clip, bought discreetly proportionate supplies of rifles, machine guns, field pieces, battle planes and munitions. For the heads of No. 1 Communist General Chu Teh and No. 2 Communist General Mao Cheh-tung-both Chinese of good family who received military training abroad-he has offered 80,000 silver dollars apiece, or $100,000 if the head is delivered attached to the body. With 300,000 Nanking soldiers in the field and ready to begin the anti-Red drive under Generalissimo Chiang's personal leadership last week, he suddenly summoned all his generals and advisers to a conference...
...shoulders of his official tailcoat. The door banged again. Out marched the prisoners, six of them with necks shaved and prison blouses open at the throat. One by one they knelt at the red-painted wooden block. Six times the executioner's broad sward flashed in a silver circle to crash down on a human neck...
...will be presented to members of the team by the president of the club, for the first time since Harvard's victory over Yale in 1930 when the team was led by Benjamin H. Ticknor '31, and coached by Arnold Horween '21. In recognition of each victory over Yale, silver footballs are awarded to the Junior Varsity and Freshman teams, while gold footballs are given to the Varsity. Following the presentation, official H.A.A. moving pictures of the 1933 Yale game will be shown for the first time. Music for the occasion will be furnished by the University band...