Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night pairs of blinking red & green lights mark the outlines of the U. S. S. Akron. By sunlight she is a shining, fat silver cigar. In fog or clouds, Pilot Ray Fuller of American Airways said last week, she is a "grey hulk" and a "menace." Pilot Fuller was flying the mail between New Orleans and Atlanta when his ship bored into a cloud bank near Mobile, Ala. Suddenly, he said, the Akron loomed dead ahead of him. He "punched the plane into a sharp wingover at 120 m. p. h. and came out underneath the dirigible." Said...
...taking" of the Kaiping coal mines in China is described, together with the London law suit in which an equity court found against his firm and in favor of Mandarin Chang. Tin enterprises in Nigeria, oil ventures in Siberia and Peru, gold digging in the Klondike, lead and silver mining in Burma-all are set forth as "stock deals" in which Mr. Hoover profited while outside shareholders were losing their shirts. The whole book is written in a vicious insinuating style with rhetorical questions ("Did Hoover do this? Why, bless your simple heart, no!") and cruel jibes. Regardless of onesided...
Perturbed by a lack of pockets, Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida invented a knapsack to contain briefs, bills and other necessities. To make it harmonize with feminine attire, she hung it from one shoulder by a strap with a silver buckle...
...first time since the Revolution Spanish troops paraded in dress uniform. Tousle-haired President Zamora rode down the Calle de Alcala through the city to the former Royal Palace, with a clattering escort of silver-cuirassed Presidential Guards. He was followed by blue-clad naval cadets, red-trousered regulars. Basque Miquelitos with pantaloons and scarlet berets, the khaki-clad Foreign Legion, Moorish cavalry in white bournouses, and the yellow-belted, shiny-hatted guardia civil. Even the sappers joined the parade, proudly carrying pontoons and bridge parts. The air force added a final touch. Squadrons of planes flew overhead scattering...
...movement to establish in Manhattan an Irish Cultural Center started in 1927 when a group of Irish and Irish-Americans organized what they patriotically called the Irish Theatre. They took over the Greenwich Village Theatre, gave a noteworthy performance of Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie. Last week, the group carried their plans a step further with the opening of a Museum of Irish Art. Occupying four of the six rooms leased by the Irish Theatre in the Barbizon Hotel, the Museum intends to "contribute the culture and arts of old and new Ireland to the American...