Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texan who ran the Women's Army Corps for three crowded years passed her colonel's eagles over to another woman. Then she embraced her staff, patted her carefully coiffed, blue-tinted hair and, moist-eyed, departed. Awaiting her in Houston, Tex., were her collection of Georgian silver and rare books, her private life with her two children and husband William Pettus Hobby, 67, the executive position she had left on her husband's Houston Post. Her reason for resigning: "My mission . . . has been completed." The strength of the WAC stood at 100,000; WACs were serving...
...Soong bought silk dressing gowns for T.V. and other men of the family. France's Admiral Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu* shopped in Gump's lush Mandarin Room. Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla went to the same famed Post Street store to get Mexican silver plates, gifts for the American delegation. Brazil's Carlos Martins pounced on cocktail sets and identification bracelets at jewelers like Shreve...
...infamous Cecil Rhodes conceived the plan to give free education to Americans in Oxford and make them into English Cells, boring from within." "The foreign ambassadors in Washing ton have worked assiduously to break down republican customs . . . so that life in official Washington has become a one-horse, german silver, royal court. From the psychosis this created has arisen its irresponsible and contemptuous treatment of the American people...
...Burmans sat like Buddhas and sucked at whacking long, silver-white cheroots while Sir Reginald spoke. He promised that Burma would have self-government as soon as possible. But before that happened, Burma must
wants to ride through Tokyo on Hirohito's white horse, got encouragement from the Reno Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber ordered a custom-built, silver-mounted saddle for the Admiral, solemnly asked Washington for his beam measurements. "I wouldn't know about the posterior," said his daughter, Mrs. Preston Lea Spruance, a distant cousin (by marriage) to Admiral Spruance, "Daddy is about 34 inches around the waist, and his hips aren't much larger. Neither mother nor I has ever measured...