Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the mellow brick walls of St. James's Palace the blond, horsy young Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, led a gaudy procession to a scarlet-draped balcony. The silver trumpets of the Horse Guards blew a fanfare, then up stepped Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...
Absolute low of the show were New Jersey's entries, except for an able seascape by John Marin. Proudly grey-haired Painter Henry R. MacGinnis had his photograph taken in front of his commonplace Silver Kimono with his model, Jane Erwin, and Governor Hoffman. There were also four sentimental landscapes suitable for calendars, an unbelievably bad poster pumpkin, an indigestible moon in a green sky and some portraits. Bleated New Jersey Art Critic and Columbia University Art Instructor Raymond O'Neill: "This show will make New Jersey appear to be painting in a corner away from the march...
...interested in purpura, published in his Journal of the American Medical Association two ways of treating that blood disease. The methods were equally inexplicable, equally poisonous. In purpura blood escapes from capillaries and collects under the skin or mucous membranes in spots which range in size from pinpoints to silver dollars, in color from flaming red to black & blue. Bruises cause transient purpuric blotches called ecchymoses. Typhus fever causes dotty purpura or petechiae. The kind of purpura which interested Dr. Fishbein last week was thrombocyto-penic purpura. Victims of this condition are constantly in danger of suffering a gush...
...Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh's Wall Street. About $30,000,000 worth of stock changed hands there last year, giving it ninth place in the list of registered exchanges. Most active stock last year was Carnegie Metals, which has nothing to do with steel. The company owns gold and silver mines in Mexico. Another Pittsburgh favorite is San Toy Mining, which also owns Mexican mines. One hundred shares of San Toy cost $2. President of the Pittsburgh Exchange is Ralph Struthers Richards, a spruce, popular socialite who heads one of the biggest brokerage houses in Pittsburgh, Kay, Richards...
...small board of solid gold, with gold and silver pieces, is said to have been the property of the Czarina of Russia. Near it stands a larger set with silver and gold squares on a chased silver stand...