Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Hayes, Ruth Chatterton, Gertrude Lawrence, Mary Martin and Myrna Loy merged histrionic fireworks to plug the National War Fund in a crowded playlet entitled Untitled. More sacrificially, they also put their charms together in a line and bravely faced the candid cruelty of a news camera (see cut). Silver lining for the actresses was the local (Manhattan) record of the Women's Division of the Fund: gathered midway in a drive for $800,000, with less than 20% of the prospects called...
With this text from Joshua, the biggest of the 17 groups of Lutherans in the U.S. marked its silver jubilee. The United Lutheran Church is the result of the 1918 merger of Northern and Southern branches separated at the Civil War. Last week the group, looking back over a quarter of a century, noted a 58% increase in membership, from 1,051,815 in 1918 to 1,666,004 today...
Being attacked by the enemy under these conditions had become a nightmare of exploding planes and disappearing friends. Lieut. Colonel Beirne Lay Jr. described the sensations and sights of the Regensburg raid in last week's Saturday Evening Post: "A shining silver rectangle of metal sailed past over our right wing. I recognized it as a main-exit door. Seconds later, a black lump came hurtling through the formation, barely missing several propellers. It was a man, clasping his knees to his head, revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that...
...Friendly Editors will supply in concentrated lessons what you lack in experience. In Harvard's only course in journalistic style, all comers will learn how to be gentle, how to be sentimental, how to boost subtly a pet idea, and, last but not least, how to don the silver armor (which hangs freshly polished, semperparatus, behind the Managing Editor's desk) and ride roughshod over the tyrants of University Hall and drive the money changers from Lehman. They will be received in the dressing rooms of stars of the legitimate and illegitimate stages and interview the aspirants to fame that...
...seamed mountains around Leadville, Colo, men hacked millions of dollars of quick wealth for almost two generations. Leadville's ramshackle streets were lined with saloons, dance halls, "wine theaters," brothels. Lucky miners became millionaires overnight, tossed silver dollars at stage girlies in red tights, brawled, gambled, built gingerbread palaces on the hill. Leadville had its ups & downs - gold in the '60s ; silver-rich carbonate ores that made the Carbonate Kings in the '70s; the Little Johnny and other gold-mine workings in the '90s. By 1933, however, most of the zinc, lead and silver mines were...