Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silver Lining. In Juniper, N.B., Fred Grant, annoyed by crows, set out a box trap for them, caught instead an escaped silver fox which dropped a litter of five in the trap...
White-haired Field Marshal and Premier Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, a veteran of the League of Nations, ventured: "This time we will pull it off." Backstopping French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was silver-maned, dark-skinned Joseph Paul-Boncour, who called himself "an oldtimer at this sort of thing." En route he met for the first time in years his old friend Carl Hambro, Norwegian President of the League of Nations, who was too polite to pull rank with airlines and got "bumped" from his plane seat in Atlanta...
...gaudy, rustic-looking eccentric, Ray Sprigle has been wearing a ten-gallon sombrero for 15 years, ever since he went to Arizona to solve a Pittsburgh murder. The ten-gallon hat, a silver-ringed cane, and a fuming corncob pipe are the trademarks of the Post-Gazette's 58-year-old star reporter. To disguise himself for his latest assignment-to expose Pittsburgh's lively black market in meat-he gave up hat and cane, but not his pipe...
...curiously mixed crowd-aging ladies in purple velvet and flowered hats come to recall a bygone day, brash youths come to scoff at a legend. Silver-haired Ruth St. Denis, 67, high priestess of the dance, was returning to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall stage, with Ted Shawn, 53, her husband and partner from whom she had separated 13 years...
Herr Krupp was annoyed. "Must I answer?" he snapped. "Yes," Colonel Sagmoen snapped back. Herr Krupp lit a cigaret from a silver case in his pocket, puffed anxiously, said: "Four hundred thousand marks a year [$160,000 at official prewar exchange rate]." All profits, he said, had been split between the Nazi Government and his family...