Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just Indians. It doesn't make sense. Nowhere in Europe can you find as much difference between nations. ..." Lanky, ebullient Director d'Harnoncourt showed the difference in seven cunningly designed rooms: fine basketry and feather-weaving by the Pomos and Paiutes of California and Nevada; weaving and silver work by the Hopis, Navahos, Apaches of the Southwest; bone and tusk carving by the Chinook and other fishermen of the Northwest; magnificent work with buffalo and elk skins by the Sioux, Blackfoot and Crow tribes of the plains; beautifully carved wooden ware of the Eastern Iroquois...
Married. Erskine Caldwell, 35, once-divorced novelist and short story writer (Tobacco Road); and Margaret Bourke-White, 31, once-divorced artist-photographer; in Silver City, Nev. Last November she declared: "I will not marry him no matter how many reporters want...
...identity of the hero of this hell-for-leather ballad stumped the Information Please experts a few Tuesdays back, but hundreds of thousands of radio fans, young and old, could instantly have whooped out his name - The Lone Ranger! Hi-Yo, Silver...
...behalf of 36 radio sponsors, 29 of them bakers of bread, cake and biscuits, the Lone Ranger rides his imaginary mount, Silver, over a vast radio range of 129 stations, including one in Honolulu and one in Sydney, Australia. In real life he is Earl Crasser of Detroit. The popular belief is that Silver was named for Gordon Baking Co.'s Silvercup Bread, the Lone Ranger's leading sponsor from his start over five years...
...only are the Lone Ranger and "Hi-Yo, Silver" the inspiration for the nation's No. 1 cinema serial and a comic strip in 81 daily newspapers at home and abroad, they are licensed as trade names to 53 manufacturers of everything from banks to bubble gum. So his horse will hardly be renamed. The Ranger will have to find some other way of making children pester their mothers to switch from Silvercup to Bond bread...