Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Nevada's silver-haired, rancorous Pat McCarran, spokesman for the silver bloc, opened a filibuster against an Administration bill to permit the sale of Government-owned silver for commercial use at less than the pegged price. One day Pat McCarran read drowsily for four hours from ancient RFC hearings. His voice began to crack; while the opposition was napping, Pat McCarran gained unanimous consent for a clerk to continue the reading. The clerk droned on, filling up 15 pages of the Congressional Record, at $55 a page...
...Silver Bloc. Portland (Ore.) restaurants report heavy increases in thefts of silverware. Their theory: Portland's thousands of new war workers, now starting to furnish 28,683 emergency houses built in the area, are thus assembling their household flatware...
There are a few varieties of bat which do not hibernate, including the Red Bat, the Hoary, and the Silver-haired. Some live in the forests of Washington or Canada, eating insects during the summer, but when winter comes they migrate southward...
...London they dined with young Queen Victoria's uncle, the Duke of Sussex, who insisted on giving Mrs. Webster a prize strawberry "from his own plate." Said Mrs. Webster ungratefully: "A thorough radical and not very refined." The Queen gave them "a superb dinner" served on gold & silver plates. Mrs. Webster could not resist washing her hands in the ladies' room "to show that I knew the use of the scented water and napkins...
...SPORTING BLOOD - Edited by Ellery Queen-Little, Brown ($2.50). An anthology of short detective stories dealing with sports and hobbies, from horse racing (A. Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze) to book collecting (Dorothy L. Sayers' The Dragon's Head). There are 18 other tales by authors old & new, U.S. and English, all good examples of this difficult genre...