Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Village homes and farmhouses were stuffed with comforts, even luxuries. Near Frankfurt, one correspondent wonderingly noted the furnishings-paintings, silver and glassware, rich linens-then dipped into a bedroom closet: "I counted 87 dresses, three pairs of boots, 17 pairs of shoes. One whole drawer was jammed with tightly packed, unworn silk stockings...
Billy Rose, jigger-sized impresario of jumbo-sized shows which provide him with a jeroboam-sized bankroll, peeled off $29,500 for silver banqueting and tea services at a Manhattan auction...
Slot machines now clank in remote service stations. There are few towns so small that a housewife cannot take a pass at the dice for a dime. In Las Vegas and Reno, divorcees, cowhands, tourists and plain citizens crowd plush palaces where roulette wheels whir and stacked silver dollars gleam on green tables. Gamblers are Nevada's new bonanza kings. Wilbur ("Little Caesar") Clark, 37-year-old operator of Las Vegas' gaudy new Monte Carlo Casino, had only $2,200 in 1941. Now he owns a gambling palace, a hotel, four cocktail bars and two cardrooms; is part...
Last week smiling Miss Ruth and grinning Private Holland, who wore the ribbons of the Silver Star and Purple Heart and carried two canes to help him balance on his artificial legs, were married at West Conshohocken's Baligomingo Baptist Church...
...miracle came: a fleet of silver bombers .that left part of Regensburg in flames. Next day, the Gauleiter was buried -as one of the victims of the raid-and the Fischers breathed again. The bishop generously attended the funeral service-"The mass was at its beginning. He climbed the circular stone steps to the choir, sat down at the organ, and pulled all the stops. Through the immense structure surged a storm of music, a roar as wild as the sound of the Danube." But the people of Regensburg only hung their heads, and "it was evident that...