Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved a resolution of New York's Somers recommending that the President call an international monetary conference to up the price of silver...
...north at Basle in the German-speaking neck of Switzerland drowses a bleak building once the Hotel de I'Univers, today the financial watch tower not only of Europe and Asia but of the entire world. Through its small lobby scurry page boys, their grey liveries initialed in silver with the suggestive letters, BIZ. The big table around which biggest business is done by the Governors of Banks of England, France, Germany Italy, Japan and a U. S. group headed by J.P. Morgan & Co. is draped in grey, the color of money bags. On this grey table lay fresh...
...hollow [of the beach] a great wave left stranded what appeared to be countless scintillating particles of silver . . . Some appeared to be standing on their tails, swaying vibrantly back & forth. Then on beyond we made out another great school. ... For perhaps eight or ten minutes this abundant run continued and then, as though a mysterious knell had summoned them back into the depths of the sea, the fish became fewer & fewer on the sand...
...Yorkers smiled, remembered colorful Mr. Brush's reputation for giving a party every night, for sending birthday telegrams to hundreds of people. He has a passion for elephants, owns 1,100 elephant figures in gold, ivory, wood, silver. Once he had a live one hoisted to the roof of a hotel where he was giving a party...
...with war, Christophe's agonizing pity, half-realized intimations, grow too intense. Tenderly, as if she were unfolding clouds behind which glory shines, Authoress Hall recounts how Christophe goes out one night with a patrol; how he wanders from the others, possessed with his vision; how, holding his silver rood before him, he walks up to an enemy patrol, is taken, stripped, spat on, and crucified against a door. The Author. Authoress Radclyffe Hall's maiden poetic effort was dictated at the age of three. By 1915 she had published five volumes of verse. Novel-writing, suggested...