Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month, NBC-tuned citizens of Holyoke, Mass, rose abruptly from their radios, rushed to a vacant lot at Prospect and Walnut Streets, and began digging frantically with knives, spoons, shovels or any implements they had. One man brought a bulldozer. Within an hour, two of the diggers unearthed 500 silver dollars apiece, and the lot looked as if it had been bombed...
...Victor and the Living Buddha. Emily's Shanghai apartment had green walls, ceilings spangled with stars and crescent moons, silver-gilt furniture, 60 satin cushions. Gibbons were her favorite pets. Dressed in diapers, they swung from the bars of a bamboo grille. From the back room came the steady tap-tap-tap of an illegal wireless transmitter, planted there by some amiable Chinese guerrillas. Emily's other friends included fabulously rich Sir Victor Sassoon (he gave Emily a snappy Chevrolet coupé), the gouty Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia ("I have nothing to do all day," he said...
...know in the Senate we still keep the old snuffbox right up there where it's been for more than 80 years, with a fresh supply of snuff, though nobody ever dips into it. And there's a little silver box on each desk. What do you think is in that? Burnt sand that we're supposed to use when we sign our names in ink. Well, our legislative system is about as anachronistic...
...this junta were leaders of the Center, Moderate Left, Catalonian Anarchists. Excluded were the Communists. Its guiding intelligence was Indalecio Prieto, right-wing Socialist and onetime Minister of War in the Spanish Republican Government. The junta's most important asset: an almost legendary cargo of Spanish gold, silver bars, securities, bullion, jewels, shipped to Mexico when the Spanish Republic fell...
...last of the Commissioner's major decrees splashed into print a year ago. Violently opposed to all forms of gambling, the silver-haired Judge banned W. D. Cox, owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, from baseball for life because Cox bet on his own team. Two years before, Judge Landis blackballed Bing Crosby's bid for the Boston Braves because Bing owned a racing stable. In 1940, he waved his wand and made free agents of 92 players who had signed Detroit Tigers contracts (because Detroit used its farm clubs to "cover up" players). He always championed the little...