Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the baseball season a month gone, the Baseball Writers' Association of America last week got around to its annual job of designating the players who, in their opinion, contributed most to their leagues throughout the 1937 season. This kudos and a silver trophy donated by The Sporting News went...
...tobacco dynasty, and Priscilla St. George Duke, 18, married last January; a son. As the child was born, pretty Grandmother Mrs. George B. St. George, granddaughter of late Banker George F. Baker and first cousin to Franklin D. Roosevelt, was romping to a blue ribbon on three-gaited Silver Fox in Manhattan's National Horse Show...
...drums, the curtains at Manhattan's Shubert Theatre parted this week to disclose two apparently naked gods reclining on a cloud, their bare bottoms perked toward the heavens, their amorous gaze fixed on the somewhat startled audience. The bare bottoms were moulded of impersonal papier-mache, but the silver-bearded Jovian head on the left was unmistakably that of Alfred Lunt. Theatre Guild subscribers, present for the Manhattan opening of Amphitryon 38, settled back expectantly in their seats. They realized that Jupiter Lunt's eyes were not feasting on them but on the earthly abode of Alcmena Fontanne...
...Manhattan's Columbus Hospital Extension, 16 years ago, an hour-old infant lay near death. A nurse, later adjudged to have been "tired," had bathed his eyes with the wrong solution of silver nitrate, 50% instead of 1%, which had blinded him, seared his cheeks with deep furrows, and with its fumes caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor's permission to pin on the babe's clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder...
...pitifully weak Army team was finally handed the game on a silver platter, Saturday, and although it refused the offer once, the second fumble was too much for them as they went...