Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk read, Mrs. Norton took a large American Beauty rose, labeled "Huey Pierce Long," from a small page and placed it in a large silver vase furnished for the occasion by a florist. One by one, as the roll of the dead was called, she added six other roses labeled Thomas David Schall, R. Garden, Charles Vilas , Truax, Henry Mahlon Kimball, Wesley Lloyd, Stephen Andrew Rudd...
...Chevrolet driver immediately became so vexed that, together with a few bitter remarks, he stuck his arm out the window and rudely motioned for the Ford to pass. And pass he did. But alas! it was no gentleman driving the Ford. On the contrary, it was a blue-uniformed, silver-buckled servant of Massachusetts, a man with positively no sense of chivalry. He was not interested in an honorable victory but insisted upon a humiliating defeat, and ordered the Chevrolet to the curb...
...intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown, the brilliant uniforms of the guests. Almost unnoticed in another part of Vienna was another wedding guest, Britain's onetime Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The presence of this British elder statesman with his monocle screwed into his emaciated aristocratic face suggested bigger news than...
Early in 1935, Western Newspaper Union's silver-haired President Herbert Henry Fish proposed a reorganization plan which was to scale down interest payments on W. N. U.'s bonds from 6% to 2%. President Fish explained that he wanted to "conserve principal." When this plan was announced, a committee of bondholders applied to the Federal Court in Omaha, onetime Western Newspaper Union headquarters, for permission to reorganize the company under Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. The bondholders' committee's alternate plan called for less drastic interest reductions. The court ruled that since...
...soldiering he did was a holiday task. One summer he marched with his father and two brothers to Ticonderoga to help repel Burgoyne's invasion, was too late to see any fighting. After his graduation his father gave him an eight-dollar Continental bill (worth about two in silver) and sent him out to make his own way. He taught school, studied law, sashayed into Hartford society-where his Yankee angularity drew down pert feminine comments: "His reflections are as prosy as those of our horse. . . . In conversation he is even duller than in writing, if that is possible...