Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of a troop of Kentucky National Guardsmen in 1921 he put down a riot in strike-torn Newport, was promoted to Brigadier General of the National Guard. Grateful Newporters presented him with a saddle horse, and for similar service citizens of Fort later gave him a set of silver. But as the years passed, hard-bitten General Denhardt won the dislike of many a Kentuckian for his use of troops in labor troubles. As Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky from 1923 to 1927, he was praised as one of the best presiding officers in the history of the State Senate...
...President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute to his staff. A steel-helmeted worker paid tribute to the daily average of 6,500 men employed in the construction. Then, wielding a dirty acetylene torch, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam severed a gold link in a silver chain across the bridge entrance. Said he profoundly: "This bridge is not the product...
...mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed by the same charmer and in the same fashion as himself. A captain at 21, he drove his Silver Racer on record runs to China, married a lovely, shrewd little French-Canadian girl, was not unfaithful to her except with native women, piled up a fortune of $35,000. During the Civil War the raiding Alabama destroyed his ship. He enlisted in the Union Army, took his son on a voyage running...
...former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king. One of its more spectacular features was a glassed-in terrace in which grew an orchard of genuine peach trees. This season, Miss Ferber's first in the apartment, brought an unexpected bumper crop. Some could be used in a silver bowl on the piano, others sent in baskets to friends in hospitals. But this didn't take care of the largest portion of the yield. Miss Ferber suffered nightmares in which she saw baskets of peaches crowding her out of her house right into Park Avenue. To the rescue came...
...quick call for reinforcements brought out the men who apparently are retained just to wait for such an occurance, complete with a gasoline compound known in technical terms as aluminum paint remover. By 8 o'clock the next morning all was dull bronze again save for a suspicious silver daub on one foot, and due to Harvard's well-known aversion to early rising, nobody was the wiser...