Word: silver
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ever permitted in his gambling rooms, no liquor was ever allowed, all patrons had to wear evening dress, no employe was permitted to wager a nickel. One year Gamester Ballard made $1,000,000. He bought the West Baden Springs Hotel, and later, with a Detroit gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business. He bought Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus which was about to go on the rocks, soon picked up other circuses - Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Golmar Bros...
...over the wall and into Japan's Manchukuo. The Christian birthday cake of the Dictator carried not 50 candles but replicas of 50 foreign-built bombing planes of the latest type which are the Chinese people's birthday present to Chiang Kaishek. Coolies have given coppers, bankers silver bars, and so much money was collected for the Birthday Airplane Fund that the Government last week expected to be able to buy an additional 50 war planes. Unconfirmed was an exuberant Nanking rumor that "Chiang has secretly erected the world's largest poison gas factory and the Japanese...
...steel mast round which are wrapped two spiral staircases, braced like a camera by a quadruped of four iron pylons. On this framework the whole weight of the statue hangs. Not bronze is Liberty's skin but hand-hammered sheets of pure copper about the thickness of a silver dollar. Each sheet is anchored to an iron strap, tied with iron girders to the central skeleton (see cut). Even the nearby Black Tom explosion of 1916 did not shake it. In 50 years it has not sagged, cracked or corroded...
...cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry Houdini. This Halloween was the tenth anniversary of Harry Houdini's death in Detroit...
...dark hotel roof last week bearded Manager Saint appealed for quiet. The music of Pomp and Circumstance poured from a loudspeaker. By the light of a small red lamp, Manager Saint read his speech: ". . . the ten-year vigil of the silver-haired widow of Harry Houdini to night comes to its final and logical conclusion with this last attempt to pierce the Great Void. . . ." The magician explained that the spirit of Houdini might, if it could, ring the bell, unlock the handcuffs, speak a code message through the trumpet...