Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year. Twenty-six state and some 20 intersectional shoots culminate yearly in the Great Eastern States and National Telegraphic Championships staged by the Remington Gun Club at Lordship, Conn. This year for the first time skeeters in the Great Eastern States shoot competed for a 28½-in. silver cup donated by Publisher Eltinge F. Warner of Field & Stream...
...stormy autumn night three years ago French peasants near the cathedral town of Beauvais stared in terror at a huge rain-drenched silver mass that lurched over their heads and into a nearby hillside. They heard three thunderous explosions, saw a gigantic blinding blaze. It was the end of Britain's ill-fated R-101, the end of Britain's hopes about lighter-than-air craft. For in that roaring hillside furnace burned the bones of most of the men who had fought for the dirigible program: Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for Air; Sir William...
...major operations before December 1925. Given the deathbed rite of Extreme Unction, she saw a vision of mother Cabrini, soon recovered. Next week in Chicago doctors were to examine Peter Smith, 12, of Manhattan. Peter Smith was blinded soon after birth, when a careless nurse washed his eyes with silver nitrate in 50% solution instead of 1%. He also contracted pneumonia. Prayers were addressed to Mother Cabrini. Peter Smith regained his health, his sight and now plans to become a priest...
...some talk of duplicating the original Parliament. Nothing came of it. Piety at the Fair is represented by Christian Scientist and Roman Catholic exhibits, and a long, L-shaped Hall of Religions with a Gothic tower, containing such churchly wares as Protestants have cared to show (notably the silver Chalice of Antioch which may have been the Holy Grail, and Col. Henry Stanley Todd's virile portrait of Christ-TIME, April 17). Nearest thing to a Parliament is a corollary to the Fair which opened last week at the Hotel Morrison-the World Fellowship of Faiths...
...Investigation Suit, with Midget Attached." Another pattern, "Office Uniform, Neat yet Impressive," showed the dummy clothed in a blue suit, white waistcoat and wing collar, a prominent gold chain suspended across the expansive stomach. "Fancy Dress Costume, for Fete Days on His Yacht" showed a headless Long John Silver clad in pirate's costume, a crutch tagged "1929" under one arm, a bag of money in one hand, a hat bearing skull & bones and the word "Corsair" (Morgan yacht) on his head. The fourth costume was striped trousers and shirt, a green-flowered apron, blue gloves, green-rimmed spectacles...