Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adding to its already large collection of rare silver, the Fogg Museum has acquired a group of distinguished pieces from English makers of the 17th and 18th centuries. The new pieces have been given as long time loans by Archibald A. Hutchinson who has been one of the chief contributors to the collection. A tea and coffee service has also been presented by Richard Sears which illustrates well the fine types of the late Georgian style...
...Christian Premier anticipates that rivers of Chinese blood will remain unshed at an expense in silver dollars measurably less than what it would cost China to buy the weapons she requires direct from the rapacious West. In Nanking, placing the tips of their fingers calmly together, Chinese statesmen opined to fascinated white correspondents that it would surely be the part of wisdom for European nations, now so petulantly drifting into another War and with Munitions Broker Sir Basil Zaharoff dead, to buy each other off rather than blunder into the much greater expense of fighting...
...vast specialty press of the U. S. is now added an instructive new monthly called The Pawnbrokers' Journal. Publisher is one David Silver, a thin-thatched, spectacled, onetime jeweler who launched his venture on the promising estimate that there are some 13,000 pawnshops in the land, until now lacking in a literature of their...
Disillusioning to customers but useful for them to know is that "a pawnbroker never lends money on the basis of what the customer paid for the article. If it's jewelry, we lend only on the actual value of the gold or silver...
...from the cut-over land of Michigan and Wisconsin. As in the East, the favorite tree is the luxuriant and fragrant balsam fir, with spruce, still considered the only real Christmas tree in the South, a bad second. Exclusive with Gust Relias are colored Christmas trees, sprayed green or silver at his shipping point, Eureka, Mont...