Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, I have discovered a silver lining -an infallible technique I'd like to pass along: I leave the volume turned down so that I can't hear a word-only the tone of the voices. Then if the voice is one filled with violence and hatred, passion and pain, fear and death, the show is going on. When the tone changes to one filled with lush romance, gentle coaxing and Charles Boyer's eyes-then it's the announcer. . . . But when the voice comes out cool and calm and matter-of-fact, with nothing...
...Yates McDaniel is only 35, but his hair is almost white. It should be. As a Far Eastern correspondent for A.P., he retreated up the Yangtze with the Chinese Army, had enough narrow escapes to earn many a thread of silver. His experiences of the past fortnight entitle him to a snow-white thatch for the rest of his life. For Yates McDaniel watched the collapse of Singapore at close hand, filed a dispatch that might well have been the last farewell of a crack reporter...
Left. By the late Playwright Sidney Coe Howard (They Knew What They Wanted, Yellowback, The Silver Cord): a net estate of $243,566; to his widow, Leopoldine, daughter of Walter Damrosch...
Musts for the "Silver Months" "We've wasted the golden months in which we could have got fully ready, the months in which we could have expanded our steel industry, our chemical industry, our copper industry, and all the others. . . . But we still have ten silver months-the months which remain...
These sober words came from Don Nelson last week. A gun now, he said, is worth ten guns in 1943. He also listed three silver-month musts, upon which "maximum production at once" depends. The production news of the week gave clues to how he meant to enforce them...