Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tour In Chicago, after 100 touring children had departed from their hotel, the tour director mailed back a package. Contents: eleven spoons, five salad forks, one silver tray, two napkins, 17 washcloths, 22 bath towels, 58 small ash trays, three large ash trays, two water glasses, nine hotel signs, 24 shoe bags, one table knife...
America's oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat. It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for. Yachtsmen still think motor-boatmen are crazy. But there are enough mechanically-minded U. S. citizens, willing to spend $50,000 for a boat and 500 hours a year tinkering with it, to make the Gold Cup race one of the most exciting sport events...
...syphilis spirochete, which first invade the gums, may later migrate to tonsils, salivary glands and lungs. Trench mouth is most prevalent in summertime when campers use common utensils and cups. To kill the trench mouth spirochete, doctors usually swab their patients' swollen gums with hydrogen peroxide, silver salts or arsphenamine, prescribe mouthwashes of sodium perborate. But such treatment usually lasts for many weeks...
...hump near Palmyra in western New York. On Hill Cumorah, in September 1827, the Angel Moroni handed down the Word to a strapping, 21-year-old farmer-visionary named Joseph Smith, in the form of a book written on golden plates and a Urim and Thummim (stones fastened in silver bows) which enabled him to translate it. The result of Seer Smith's labors was the Book of Mormon, which ever since has been the treasured gospel of the sect he founded, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...
...pilot said it was his roughest trip in four years. The big, silver United Air Lines Willkie Special lurched in the uneasy air, sometimes dropped 60 feet in a bump. Candidate Wendell Willkie and his wife, flying from Salt Lake City to Colorado Springs, kept their chins up as well as any one. Far below lay grand U. S. scenery that would have been more reassuring if God had provided more landing fields upon it-the jutting peaks of the snow-clad Rockies...