Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quiteria from Don Quixote. Forced into narrow, high panels, the kicking, squealing characters of Artist Sert literally stand on each other's heads to fill the space. Celebrants at the wedding feast include leaping acrobats, hoary strong men, bull tamers, jugglers, drunkards, surrounded by great billows of silver and claret-colored drapery. Other than those which Artist Sert has painted into his compositions, there will be no hangings in the Waldorf's Sert Room. Paris critics credited the paintings with "the potency of a Michelangelo . . . daring of a Goya . . . more than one reminiscence of the great Venetian colorists...
...smoke until after the Royal Toast, but in the middle of dinner a huge silver sarcophagus full of toothpicks is solemnly passed round the table, a relic from the founder of Cowes, Henry VIII...
...contained no cadaver. Inside were a dozen cans of ether and the following articles: two revolvers, 40 rounds of ammunition, twelve pairs of riding boots, a box of nickel-plated spurs, twelve officers' uniforms complete with hats, a gross of clinical thermometers, box after box of silver-plated insignia for officers' shoulder straps. A letter in the pockets of de Zaldo led to the arrest of Emilio N. Robaina, correspondent of Excelsior El Pais (Excelsior The Homeland), a gentleman with beetling brows and heavy black mustache. Department of Justice agents telephoned Washington, telephoned Havana where Senors de Zaldo...
Heading the counsel for the defense were venerable, silver-haired, massive Garrett William McEnerney, once Jim Flood's personal attorney, and stocky, nervous Theodore Roche. Their arguments were that the first Mrs. Flood would not have adopted her husband's bastard, that Jim Flood would have given an adopted daughter all the affection and kindness which Mrs. Gavin said proved she was his real daughter. Thus did they refute old Flood retainers, coachmen, gardeners, nurses & neighbors who testified he had often called Constance May "My baby," "My little daughter...
...Saunders acting as liaison officer, the Juonis offered to serve pickled herring, 200 sandwiches and 200 cups of coffee to 200 guests in return for a night's sleep. The charivarists accepted, ate the herring and sandwiches, drank the coffee, left with a bowl filled with $30 in silver. Outside they were aghast to find that Sheriff Saunders had departed with all their horns, pans, boilers, drums, hoops, hammers, fiddles, saxophones, trays, bells, saws, firearms and new noisemaking machines...