Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asserted in the U. S. smartchart Town & Country last week with the comment: "The King is proud of her. Anyone bold enough to object to her being at the royal table would be quickly disgraced." In shipping $50,000 worth of this year's finest U. S. silver fox pelts to a "royal purchaser" in London last week, the Manhattan fur export firm's owner Julius Green hinted: "Some people take it for granted these silver foxes are a gift to Mrs. Simpson." Meanwhile Mr. Simpson was transferring his clothes from the Simpson flat to the Guards Club...
...served in Ismailia, Heliopolis, commanded a test flight in Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying is the only thing that promises excitement, thrills and speed." When officials calibrated his instruments, they found that he had climbed to 49,967 ft., well above both the recognized world record...
...though seen from a distant hilltop. It is a walled city of the fifteenth century, shining in the sunlight among poplar, plane and cypress. The river Adige like a thread of silver. We hear faintly the sound of many bells which grows louder...
...longer need the followers of the Green bow their heads in shame when the Harvard band marches onto the field with one member banging melodically on his lyre-shaped instrument. No longer can Yale vaunt its silver-toned hope in front of the Hanoverian stands as they bend their heads in shame...
...Irene Castle McLaughlin, America's pre-War Glamor Girl, now a Chicago socialite and that city's most noted dog-lover. From each 25? fee collected, Mrs. McLaughlin gets a portion. Questioners are also incipient customers for stores selling hats sold by Irene Castle, Inc. A ringing silver flood of 1,000 quarters a day last week indicated that Mrs. McLaughlin's latest professional venture was a big success...