Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lean, hard Sir Jey Singhji Bahadur, Maharaja of Alwar. is the man who annually distributes his weight in silver to the poor. Polo and racquets keep him down to about $500 worth. In January H. H. sent out a hurry call for British troops, insisting that 15,000 bearded Meos tribesmen were terrorizing Hindu shopkeepers, making things too hot for his own little army of 500. The troops came, the revolt stopped instantly (TiME...
...Habsburg-Lorraine and Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parme. The Pope assumed the Papal throne. A Cardinal and two other prelates approached, knelt, begged thrice that Blessed Andrè Fournet be declared a saint. The Pope twice told all to pray for God's assistance, then declared the petition granted. Silver trumpets blew, all the bells of Rome rang loudly. By ancient ritual the Cardinals offered Pius XI loaves of bread, kegs of wine and water, cages of doves, pigeons, nightingales and other birds. The Holy Father, 76, appeared pale towards the end, but not otherwise affected by muggy heat...
Hereafter the winner each year in addition to having his name inscribed on the permanent cup will be presented with a silver baseball. The award for the year 1932 was made to Charles Devens '32. Other recent winners were F. H. McGrath '31 in 1931 and P. R. Tickner...
Grant Richards' was not a gay, a silver spooned childhood. His father, a tutor in clasaies at Oxford, cared little for children, especially for male children, and the young boy was left pretty much to himself except when he had done wrong. But he was not a complaining child, and as he looks back, there is a melancholy charm, about his childhood that is attractive. And what he seems to have suffered from neglect, he gained in independence and self-sufficiency. Then there were always the summer holidays at Barmouth, at John o'Groat's, or on the island...
...presented 250 Rhodesmen to Edward of Wales, remembered them all. Lady Wylie always presided at tea, had every Scholar to dinner once a year. Sir Francis, wise and tactful, was knighted in 1929 for his Rhodes work. In 1931 the current crop of Rhodesmen gave the Wylies a silver salver, a scroll, a dining room suite...