Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canals in the heart of the city, and most Japanese towns boast a copy of Tokyo's Nihonbashi. Many streets are pleasantly named for flowers, trees and beasts. Exceptions: Anjin-cho (pilot street), named for Will Adams, first Englishman to visit Japan; the Ginza ("mint for silver coins"), Tokyo's main street, combining the worst features of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and the Atlantic City boardwalk. Signs in Roman characters along the Ginza were often just a little wrong: "Milk Snop"; "Barber Shot"; "Traunks & Bugs...
...wonder whether Ken might not have won a Silver Star on our side with that Japanese outfit in Italy, if, so long ago, a little girl's mother hadn't taken exception to his almond eyes...
After the reception, the guests adjourned to a $20,000 ballroom-a tent with wood floor-built on the lawn for the occasion. Pink-and-silver silk, matching Betty's gown, hid the ceiling; great chandeliers held masses of pink gladioli. Two 20-piece or chestras (Meyer Davis and Ruby Newman) played chaste, danceable music through the night...
Russian power stopped at the Khalka River, which divides Outer from Inner Mongolia. Led by young Prince Teh, the Inner Mongolians remained unregenerately separate, tribal, lama-ridden and unso-vietized. In return for 50,000 silver dollars monthly, they owned a tenuous allegiance to the Chinese Republic. But in Outer Mongolian eyes, Inner Mongolia was an area for future redemption...
Last week, in the hope that the Labor victory somewhat betokened a British change of heart toward Ireland, Messrs. Mulvey and Cunningham decided to go to London at last. From a Government back bench silver-haired Mulvey raised his voice in a luscious Irish brogue: "Now that Britain has elected a more enlightened Government, my people have released me. . . . Before peace can be established justice must be done to Ireland...