Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would place Franklin Roosevelt in the cellar with Grant and Harding. . . . Grant was a great soldier, even if he was a bad President; Harding achieved success as an editor, starting at the bottom in American tradition. F.D.R. had no personal achievement of any kind, being born with a silver spoon in his mouth...
Last week Minnie Guggenheimer found a silver-lined way through the clouds. She arranged two post-season "benefit" concerts, and persuaded her 80 musicians to play for nothing. Then she signed Grace Moore to sing, and New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, ever willing to put on a show, to conduct The Stars and Stripes Forever.* To her fans, she confided: "The Mayor's going to decorate Miss Moore. I really don't know with what. ..." When uproarious applause interrupted her, she scolded: "I think you're all just dreadful people...
...Silversmiths may absorb so much silver that their skin becomes slate grey. "Canary" is the name for an explosive-powder worker whose hair and skin have become red-yellow from tetryl. A foundry worker often has red-streaked forearms...
...Jungle rot," "New Guinea crud" or "the creeping crud" are U.S. servicemen's names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. Doctors often find the nicknames convenient, since diagnosis is not always easy and many varieties respond to standard treatment: cleaning, painting with silver nitrate and other chemicals, dressing with sal-sulfur ointment, avoidance of sweating, return to the temperate zone. The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them...
...drove through impoverished sections of Basutoland, Eslanda distributed silver pieces to "incredulous" natives, "could have cried" when they accepted the money "with great dignity." But "porky, pie-faced Boers with . . . small eyes" glared when she rolled by in her "handsome Buick...