Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silver trumpetings, chantings of choirs, parades in regalia preceded the consistory. Pius XI delivered an allocution on the state of the world and listed his joys and sorrows since the last consistory. Solemnly he declared that, as remedy for the world's troubles, he alone had indicated "sound and solid principles, charity and justice and fundamental indestructible truths and teachings on the value of souls. . . ." He invited all nations to "consider what serious moral, intellectual and even material disaster is inevitably being prepared wherever the Church is openly or covertly combatted." One sorrow the Pope mentioned was the Orthodox...
Stamping the concrete floor to keep warm, a shivering crowd surrounded the silver hulk of the ZRS-5 in the cavernous airship dock at Akron, Ohio one day last week. A band of 325 high-school pupils blared "Dixie." From the dock offices athwart the bow of the airship marched Mrs. Jeannette Whitton Moffett, mother of two Naval flyers with her spry 63-year-old husband Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett. With them came Goodyear-Zeppelin officials & wives, Mayor G. Glen Toole of Macon, Ga., eight beauteous Macon girls heavily bundled against the northern chill...
...group mounted a bunting-draped platform beneath the airship's bow, just forward of the control car. The band changed to "Anchors Aweigh." There were speeches. On behalf of his city Mayor Toole presented to Commander Alger Herman Dresel a silver service for the ship's wardroom.* Someone handed Mrs. Moffett a red-white-&-blue cord suspended from the airship. Declaiming "I christen thee Macon!", she yanked the cord. Two hatches in the underside of the Macon's snout flopped open, spilling out 48 alarmed pigeons which flapped excitedly about the dock. Thirty-four of the birds...
...Silver and copper moved upward in cash trading with the markets closed. Diamonds, silk and imported rugs all advanced, but dealers preferred to hold their stocks lest they should not be able to replace them except at higher prices...
...Silver beaks out of night...