Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martha Raye, bray-voiced cinemactress, reported to police that thieves had broken into her Hollywood home, made off with: 1) a $6,000 mink coat, 2) a $1,500 silver fox coat, 3) a $350 blue fox coat, 4) a $300 leopard coat...
Eight farmers in white milking coats carried a red, blue and silver plough down the nave, laid it at the chancel steps and knelt around it. Then another farmer gave thanks for God's gifts while the congregation joined him in repeating the last three words of each sentence: "The rich soil, the smell of the fresh-turned earth-come from God. . . . The beauty of a clean-cut furrow, the sweep of a well-ploughed field -come from...
...really hearty welcome to the members of the N.R.D.G.A. last week (see above) was stocky, suntanned Milton Reynolds, who flew in from Mexico. The reason Reynolds exuded smiles and cheer was that he had something unique to sell. He told amazed retailers that he could deliver Mexican-made, sterling silver cigaret lighters at the rate of 20,000 a month. The price: $6 each, including U.S. customs duty...
...gadgets to his U.S. department-store friends. He chucked his vacation plans and made a deal: Reynolds would help the Mexican streamline his production, take exclusive distribution rights in exchange. While he was at it he also got another Mexican businessman to go into the mass production of a silver-plated zinc alloy safety razor to wholesale in the U.S. for 52?; apiece. Reynolds guessed that he could sell several hundred thousand of them in the razor-short...
...year's most professional new cinema outfit. International Pictures (Casanova Brown, Woman at the Window). As a musicomic vehicle for Gypsy Rose Lee, it is hampered not only by its own slowfootedness but by the fact that Miss Lee, America's most literate ecdysiast, has learned to silver-plate her sex with such cultivated English that she suggests Lady Windermere's Fan Dance...