Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week in the President's office the Governor-General of Canada, resplendent in a deep blue uniform bedizened with silver braid, stood before a gathering of Washington correspondents...
What Walter Kramer got for winning the men's badminton championship last week was a silver cup, named for New York socialites Bayard Clarke and E. Langdon Wilks who were the original U. S. badminton pioneers in 1878. Unlike England's "Grand Old Man" of badminton, Sir George Thomas, whose achievement of winning 78 national badminton titles in the British Isles from 1903 to 1928 is rivaled only by his position as England's best chess player, they did not contribute much to the game's later triumph. Badminton's current status...
...Sanhedrin had condemned the Messiah, that he had been taken before Pontius Pilate. Unhappy Judas rushed to the priests, cried: "I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." When they shrugged and said, "What is that to us?," Judas threw down his 30 pieces of silver "and departed, and went and hanged himself." So later wrote St. Matthew, whose Gospel contains a few more details than the others concerning the man of Kerioth in Judah. Still later, after everyone who might have known about the events had died, sects such as the Cainites came to believe that...
...gone to press one afternoon last week when, about 3:25 p. m., a truck rolled quietly along as though to cross the long new bridge over the bay to Oakland. Far at sea, a couple of steamers plumed on the horizon. Far below, toys on the hammered-silver water of the bay, a couple of launches circled aimlessly...
...spectacular prospector-tycoon is Jack Hammell, a onetime professional fisticuffer from the mining camps of California who quit a good brokerage house job in Manhattan to head for the Klondike. By his account he has won and lost eleven fortunes. He was among the first in the great Cobalt silver rush, but his first big money came from the Flin Flon, which he sold to the late Harry Payne Whitney. Since then he has had a hand in Pickle Crow and Red Lake. At 60, he still prospects by plane, summer and winter, is sometimes called "the gentleman adventurer...