Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compensations of being a stage-door keeper is the tips derived from gallant gentlemen seeking entrance to the actresses' dressing rooms. Last week the indigent Budapest Opera capitalized such backstage gallantry. It offered for sale to Budapest bloods little silver keys to the ballet dancers' green room and the singers' smoking room. Price $150, good for one year...
Tied to the U. S. acceptance of this bid was a string: the conference must not discuss Reparations, War Debts or specific tariffs. Left open for debate were such matters as silver (but not its remonetization), trade barriers, embargoes, import and export quotas, international credit and tariff policies. The practical, though remote purpose of the conference was, somehow to set world trade going again...
...When silver became king and William Jennings Bryan was its herald, mining and cattle men splashed with their fortunes into Denver. Notable was vulgar Senator Horace Arthur Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor who built the pretentious Tabor Grand Opera House, birthplace of Denver's culture, now the Tabor Grand, a cinemansion. Of Shakespeare's picture on the proscenium, Tabor said, "What the hell did he ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night...
...railroad to connect it with the Union Pacific at Cheyenne. They included Governor John Evans who founded the University of Denver; David Halliday Moffat, the mining man for whom the Moffat Tunnel is named; Walter Scott Cheesman, Denver waterworks builder. When Bryan's fight for the 16-to-1 silver ratio was finally defeated, silver was ruined, but not Denver. Its railroad enabled it to change from mining city to food city. Modern Denver was built by cattle, sheep, irrigation, wheat and sugar beets. It is the jobbing and brokerage centre for the Far West. It is the centre...
...blue in the new Chesterfield cigaret advertisements. Said she, named Hazel Grace: "I take care of my aged grandmother. All artists are swell, just swell. I have never been insulted." Another was little black-eyed Dorothy Hart, one of Artist Haskell Coffin's magazine cover models. Said silver-haired Mrs. George Snyder: "I have been insulted. An artist actually had the nerve to ask if my hair was genuine...