Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified and well-behaved as bankers, seated around long tables below a marble dais in the glass-&-silver banquet hall of Cincinnati's Hotel Netherland-Plaza last week. 322 delegates of the American Federation of Labor were gravely deliberating the course of their 2,532,261 membership, the course of the U. S. Workingman. On the third day of their 52nd annual convention, the delegates were briefly but thoroughly shocked. Rumblings of disorder came from an out side corridor. Backed by 25 struggling colleagues, an excited man named Louis Weinstock, member of the New York City Painters' Union...
...Midway, along sidewalk and gutter, all facing toward the University of Chicago's Gothic chapel, as the sound of bells from no direction that one could fix filled and emptied the air, now eerily fading, now resurging like a seashell's roar, brassily clanging, diminishing, mellowing into silver chimes. It was the University of Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge 72-note instrument, the second that John Davison Rockefeller has given...
Prosperity (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). If you took any comic strip joke about a mother-in-law, multiplied it by two, added a bank failure, four platitudes about the silver lining, and a vaudeville fox terrier you would have all the ingredients of Prosperity except the one which makes it human and amusing. This ingredient is Marie Dressier, who always impersonates grunting, sympathetic, noisy, witty, violent, immensely courageous old ladies but somehow manages to do it with enough vitality to make them seem alive. This time she is Maggie Warren, a grizzled widow who runs her husband's bank until...
...money to go to Heidelberg where he helped pay his tuition as a singing waiter in a Braukeller. He was always more interested in chemistry than medicine. Back in the U. S. he stewed up something on the future Mrs. Barnes's kitchen range. It was Argyrol, the silver compound that serves many purposes of silver nitrate without its burn...
...comes in 1933, this week when a committee consisting of Professors Philip Cabot '94, W. M. Cole '90, W. J. Cunningham, J. G. Callan and G. B. Roorbach was appointed by W. B. Donham '98, dean of the school, to consider possible modes on which to properly mark the silver jubilee...