Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldsters who fought the Independents' first battles still slay long-dead dragons with all their old zest. As a prelude to this year's Silver Jubilee, a group of oldtimers, with some 300 friends and admirers, crowded the Independents' old hangout: Petitpas, a venerable Bohemian French restaurant on Manhattan's lower West Side. Their guest of honor was a small, garrulous, bespectacled oldster who had risen from a sickbed to be there. For 24 of its 25 years he had been the Society's president. His name was a famous one in U.S. art: John...
When courtly, magniloquent old Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst (Arizona's "Silver-Tongued Sunbeam") bowed out after his defeat last fall, he assured his colleagues that while they struggled on he would be "enjoying the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night or the scarlet beauty of her blossoming cactus." Last week the genial self-styled Dean of Inconsistency became a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Headquarters: Washington...
...known-that its author was not only an obliterating wit but also a first-rank critic. Born in 1873 to a merchant-newspaper family of Cadiz, Ohio, he went to Franklin College (Ohio), spent twelve years on the first Tribune, 15 on the second, grew to be a massive, silver-haired Buddha of first nights. For more than a quarter-century, he waged an acid campaign for maturity and subtlety on the stage-and in the audience. He developed a prose style as ornate as a Victorian bandstand, used it for the elaborate puncturing of the phony or the inane...
...sterling silver, with three handles and is 11 1-4 inches in height and 9 1-4 inches in width across the top. It will remain in competition for twenty-six years, from 1941 through 1966, with the name of each year's winner to be engraved on the side. The cup will succeed the Carroll Challenge Cup, which has been presented to the winner of the Single Scull Championship of the University for the past forty-six years and which was retired...
...Night Before Christmas (by Sidney Joseph & Laura West Perelman, produced by Courtney Burr) is not a bedtime story. It is a mottled Sing Sing folk tale of a silver-haired confidence man past his prime and a slop-house plug ugly who pair up to crack a bank vault for Christmas. They buy a tired Manhattan luggage shop next door to the bank and start tunneling. Obstructed by unwanted customers, garrulous neighbors, former penmates, they dynamite, not the vault, but a nearby cafeteria, while Santa Claus stuffs their stocking with...