Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trophies at Lough Gur came from all ages: stone axes, flint weapons and tools, a bronze bracelet and bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood...
...more hazardous than any Klondike trip. That was 1902. "Winter of Death," when men dug as many holes for graves as for gold. Pittman missed both, settled down as Tonopah's legal light. By 1910 he was restless again. Congress didn't seem to understand mining-especially silver mining. He went to the Senate in 1912, was re-elected in 1916, 1922, 1928, 1934 and again last week...
...only British statesman who could sing Negro spirituals (learned as a young man when he was trying to raise sisal in the Bahamas), and the biggest feet in the Cabinet. He also had gout and bunions. Clement Attlee once said that Chamberlain's smile reminded him of the silver handles of a coffin. A kindlier woman said his eyes were "cold and smiling, like a Scandinavian river...
...occasional visits to the bereaved parents of Miss Hill in efforts to cheer them up. Then last week he put on his khaki and gold uniform as Colonel Commandant of the Johore Military Forces and marched into Caxton Hall Registry Office to marry Miss Mendl. She turned up in silver fox and orchids, wearing a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked by the Sultan's crest, two tiger claws. Wailed the parents of never-married Miss Hill, "It has come as a great shock...
...words of Author William Blake (ThePainter and the Lady) in a 10? catalogue, and gazed, not always sternly, at a thousand devices in 15 plaques on the walls. The plaques stemmed from the numismatic art of the coin and medal maker; they were beautifully cast in low relief in silver or bronze, in various shades and patinas. How they flowered was something else. Husky, wispy-bearded, bighanded Sculptor David Smith called his plaques "Medals for Dishonor," intended them to be awarded for distinguished service in the art of causing and waging war. Some titles: Propaganda for War, Diplomats, Private...