Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this anniversary (Feb. 22) of Sherman's visit to my ancestral Mt. Hope here at Ridgeway my great aunts, aged 90 and 80 years, tell me of his soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...
...bill to permit divorces after six weeks' residence. For Nevada's boosters, their State's chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes) in the Fallen irrigation district...
...dingy row of buildings on London's Long Acre, there steps a sandy-haired, neat, London-born Jew, 67-year-old Julius Salter Elias, chairman and managing director of Odhams Press Ltd. He is the most diligent figure in Britain's newspaper world. In his silver-&-black modernistic office he works 16 hours on weekdays, eight on Sundays. Every night at 10 he telephones his press superintendent to get last-minute details of headlines, pictures, stories. Austerely aloof, this lone wolf of Fleet Street, who envies Press Barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere only their titles, seldom talks to them...
Largely by such means is Oxford University endowed. Most Americans think of Oxford, fattened by the benefactions of seven centuries, as a rich university. In fact Oxford is a loose bundle of colleges, many comfortably rich by 18th-Century standards, but despite the old paintings and priceless silver only modestly well off for the 20th. Each college houses its own members and turns over to the University a substantial part of its income in return for instruction and administration. Since 1925 about a third of the cost of running Oxford has had to be met by Parliament. In 1935 Oxford...
...Their alternate weals and woes give them ample opportunity to sing such tantalizing Cole Porter hits as "Easy to Love," "I've Got You Under My Skin"' and at least six others. Eleanor Powell sings, taps, and whirls with just about as much appeal as we could wish. Sid Silver and gangling Buddy Ebsen would brighten any show with their asinine antics. There are spots in the action that seem to drag a little, especially in some of the love scenes, but such carping criticism is really not justified in the face of the lively wit and music which make...