Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will vy for the privilege of representing Harvard in the Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament at New York with all expenses paid. The test will be held in the Lowell House Dining Room next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The winning pair will enter competition at the Ritz Carlton Hotel for the silver Challenge Cup and individual miniature replicas...
...Freshman bridge players, James J. Higginson and William H. Sherer, carried off silver trophies from the University Pair Championship tournament which was concluded Wednesday night...
...also disclosed that Ahmed Salem had sought to flatter Egyptian royalty by designing special silver-rimmed helmets for young King Farouk and Queen Farida. Their Majesties' helmets were to have sported the Egyptian royal coat of arms "to facilitate identification in case either royalty became a casualty...
President Stenio Vincent of Haiti is a silver-haired, silver-tongued politician who is supported as loyally by the lesser politicians of Port-au-Prince as he is hated by Haitian exiles in Harlem. His friends say he is a statesman; his enemies call him a dictator; both agree that he likes a pleasant job. Such a job is the Presidency of Haiti...
...called off a panther hunt to quaff Manhattan literary tea. In 1932-33, on a Guggenheim grant, he traveled 2,000 miles on muleback in Mexico, emerged with material for Tongues of the Monte, rich legendary dope on the lost Tayopa Mine (Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver). For The Longhorns he searched through thousands of pamphlets, talked to hundreds of oldtimers. Said an old trail driver of Frank Dobie: "He speaks our language-and he's got the right tune as well as the right words...