Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mint, get the Government to strike off the coins for him and keep the metal that rightfully belongs to him. There would be little or no paper money . . . and we would get rid of them germ-carrying dollar bills. There are 1,014 germs on every dollar bill. Silver and gold are allergic to germs...
...Kitty takes a powder. After the baby comes and goes Kitty has to make up her mind whether to take a life of thrills or one of security. She takes security. Neither the plot nor the action are important. The emotions of Kitty Foyle as her world is first silver-lined and then shattered are the high-lights of an excellent movie...
Representative Fish was with the Yanks in 1917 and received the Croix de Guerre and the Silver Star Citation for Gallantry in Action. As a reserve he was training with the army during the maneuvers at Plattaburg last summer...
...punchy," he said. "You tell me." Michael Todd, 33, is a small, dark, jut-jawed addict of cigars and green suits. He was born in Minneapolis, where he peddled papers, played a silver cornet in a boys' band until his father moved to the country to run a general store. Aged 12, Mike worked in a Chicago carnival pitch where anyone who could throw three balls into a bucket got a free duck. Mike's job was to sit hidden under a platform, jerk a string that made the balls bounce out if they happened to drop into...
...least 20 of Hearst's collections were outstandingly good, and five-armor, English furniture, English silver, Gothic tapestry, Hispano-Moresque pottery-ranked among the finest private collections in the world...