Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again & again the enemy had slipped back through the American lines to hide and kill from ambush. Major General Verne D. Mudge, commanding the First Cavalry, had been wounded by a grenade while inspecting a newly captured area. Big, booming-voiced, silver-haired Major General Edwin D. Patrick, commanding the 6th Division, died in a burst of machine-gun fire as he sat in a foxhole on a ridge studying the positions of his troops...
...mood of the play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather than sentiment, for showing how precocious children and posturing stagefolk dramatize situations. The child sees her father slain by the Other Man; Sophie visualizes her husband's ashes brought to her, by his former mistress, in a silver urn. Then the husband really enters and the story is resolved...
...tempered, silver-haired Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, Britain's handsomest Parliamentary capriphile, has been quiet since the failure of his "the-goat-is-the-poor-man's-cow" campaign last year. But last week the barrel-chested Tory M.P. was knee deep in a new crusade: overalls for ecdysiasts...
Above them rode farther-roving P47 missions to dive-bomb and strafe every moving truck, self-propelled gun or railroad train fof many miles beyond, while higher still was the steady rumble of the great silver Fortresses in the topmost sky, purring distantly on to knock out the rearmost reinforcement areas, supply points and marshaling yards...
Tallyho. He took over a string of movie magazines which had run up big printing bills (Screenland, Silver Screen), watched them move into the black; he set up Consolidated Book Publishers to print cheap Bibles and encyclopedias, branched out into country banking, bought up Chicago real estate. When Liberty magazine was floundering, he took it over from Macfadden, added it to his string...