Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shepherd. In New Plymouth, New Zealand, a priest at St. Joseph's Church advised his congregation to "put your notes in the plate and keep your silver to back Earldale [at 10 to 1] in the last race tomorrow," but when the horse won, the clergyman admitted that at the last moment he had switched...
...winners, in order of their finish, are: Juan U. Maegli '50; Robert L. Matters '50; John C. Mathis, Jr. '50; Dominique H. Wyant '50; C. Max Kortepeter '50; Alan Sweetser '51; Ray D. Silver '50; George M. Kurzon '51; and Paul W. Mandel...
...becoming the first of the four Roosevelt boys to seek public office. His mother heard the news in Chicago, and confided to readers of "My Day": "I was a little appalled by this announcement." Besides his glamorous name, young Franklin had a good Navy record as a destroyer officer (Silver Star, Legion of Merit), and a brief career as spear-carrier in New Dealing ranks. Franklin also had some impressive supporters, all of them conveniently remote from the 20th's immediate concerns: Connecticut's Governor Chester Bowles, New York's former Governor Herbert Lehman, the ailing...
This month, the Amir of Bahawalpur rounded out 25 years of rule with a lavish silver jubilee celebration in New Bagdad (pop. about 50,000). At dawn a 19-gun salute (since independence he has added two more to the 17 guns allotted by the British) thundered over the city, and the show was on. Through the streets of New Bagdad snaked a morning-long parade of elephants, camels, jeeps and ambulances. The Amir rode in a Rolls-Royce...
...Gulzar Mahal Palace, the Amir sat on a silver throne, fanned by two garishly uniformed attendants; a Negro jester clad in scarlet tunic stood at his elbow. The Amir was a mass of glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each...