Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austere Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Vice Admiral of France and Father Provincial (on leave) of French Carmelites, sat stiffly under nine royal umbrellas of silver and white silk. Beside him lolled young (23), plump-cheeked Norodom Sianouk, king of sleepy Cambodia. As colored searchlights played over the Pnom-Penh palace grounds, monarch and monk watched ornately dressed, slant-eyed dancing girls glide through the supple, serpentine movements of the Cambodian ballet...
...famed Davis Cup, stowed away in an Australian vault for six years, was polished last week for an old ritual. In Melbourne's ancient Town Hall, twenty envelopes, containing challenges from 20 nations, were plucked one by one from the big silver bowl. This ceremony, to determine the 1946 Davis Cup draw, set the wheels of international tennis turning again...
...100th Infantry Battalion won more awards than any other unit of its size: two presidential unit citations, three Legion of Merit awards, 9 D.S.C.s, 44 Silver Stars, 31 Bronze Stars, more than 1,000 Purple Hearts. This battalion and the 442nd Infantry Regiment, also a Nisei outfit, had more than 9,000 casualties, no AWOLs but six men who jumped hospital to return to the front...
Because of Him (Universal) is Hollywood whimsy of the more expensive sort. Deanna Durbin, silver-voiced and platinum-salaried ($326,491 for 1944, tops for cinemactresses), warbles her way through it with no perceptible embarrassment-which is more than can be said for Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone and other members of the cast...
Soon "the silver basket in the vestibule of the Tower house contained the cards of Sylvester Bull, Templeton Snelling, and Ward McAllister, besides a hundred others." Mrs. Astor herself, dressed as Queen Elizabeth, attended the gorgeous Tower costume ball. Also present at the ball was rascally Terry, who had gate-crashed, disguised as a Mexican caballero. Simeon shot Terry dead. Cried little Lucy: "Why did papa hurt my real papa...