Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Precedent was broken even at the Pope's death, perhaps by his order. Cardinal Pacelli omitted the age-old ceremonial of tapping the Pontiff's forehead with a silver mallet, while calling him by name, to make sure he was dead. †Meaning: badly dressed...
High on our glittering silver wings, We carry the flag of the Rising Sun, And wherever we may soar, No sign of enemy planes...
...lunge at her line warned her that she had hooked no ladyfish. In a split second a huge tarpon vaulted out of the inky sea, "his eyes glaring like the headlights of an automobile and his body shining like an electric sign." For 55 minutes they struggled-the big "silver king" making 27 frenzied leaps before he was finally brought to gaff...
Last year Norway's Birger Ruud won the U. S. title. The year before, his brother Sigmund won it. This year the Ruud Brothers remained at home but another Norwegian, 2 -year-old Reidar Andersen, from the same little silver-mining town of Kongsberg, crossed the Atlantic to take part in the U. S. championship...
...solicit accounts for savings banks and which he turned to investment counseling. Its chief counsel, according to the charge, was to advise suckers to switch their investments to two virtually defunct gold mines Promoter Bob owned. In Coronado Gold Mines, Inc. suckers lost $250,000; in Kelly Gold & Silver Mines...