Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hate to hear people talk through their hats. Last week Vermonters in the State capital, Montpelier, thought they were hearing just that kind of phony talk. The U.S. Navy, having named a light cruiser after the city, rather expected that (according to longstanding Navy custom) Montpelier would buy a silver service for the ship's wardroom. That little gesture would set back the 8,000 Yankee citizens of Montpelier...
Columnist Vrest Orton, syndicated throughout Vermont, did his Green Mountain best to voice the Vermont view. Said he: "Apparently the wearers of the old school tie still think war is a tea party for they want a $2,000 silver service on the cruiser Montpelier for which the citizens of Vermont's small capital . . . have got to fork out. If I were the Mayor of that city, I would send a wire saying 'To hell with...
About half Montpelier (including most of the women) muttered even more loudly: the Mayor had a nerve, appointing his wife as christener of the cruiser. Silver services aside, wasn't the Mayor aware that many a descendant of Admiral Dewey still graces Montpelier...
...week the Kazaks were still waiting contentedly in their camp. They watched delightedly as the little ambulance of the Kashmir Animal Welfare Association chugged into camp to doctor the sore feet of their camels. The black-eyed, round-faced children played cheerfully after so many months strapped to high, silver-mounted saddles on the swaying backs of camels...
...rumor of distant artillery. The peasants vaguely began to realize that they must expect "the little dwarfs from the East Ocean, who always like to fight." On a later day, high and small in the sunlight as daylit stars, the first "flying ships" came over, to their admiration, dropping silver eggs which made the earth stand up like black trees. From his son-in-law Wu Lien, a Nanking shopkeeper, Ling Tan learned that where these eggs fell in the city, all was reduced to dust; even people were taken apart "as though they, too, were made of clay." Soon...