Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dane; the Dewey family at the circus; Dewey on the farm. Dewey infantrymen passed out soft drinks and small favors to gawking visitors and gave every 200th visitor a door prize. William Horne, a Philadelphia bank employee, was clocked in as the 45,000th visitor and got a sterling silver carving...
...droves. Eyeing them, the New York Times's lean and waggish Meyer Berger wondered if the fate of the party might not be settled in "Coke-filled rooms." Tom Dewey's campaign workers wooed them wildly with gifts. They handed out bottles of deodorant, emery boards, silver polish, Life Savers, chocolate, chewing gum, cigarette holders, pocket combs-and brown paper sacks to carry all the boodle...
...Juan Zumárraga (who converted the Aztecs to Christianity) brought the first pair from Spain 400 years ago. At the start, the burro served as replacement for the Indian runners who daily brought fresh fish from the coast to the rulers in Mexico City. Later, it carried the silver & gold of Mexico's mines. Now, 1,325,000-strong, Mexico's burro force still brings huge loads of charcoal down from the hills, jugs of pulque from farms to railheads, drags great beams into Mexico City. Often as not, after a Saturday night, the burro carries home...
...almost as naked of furniture as the Elizabethan stage; Olivier uses both facts to the film's advantage. Not even the costumes are distracting; they are close to the simplest mind's-eye image: a King & Queen like playing cards; Hamlet in black & white, with a princely silver chain; Ophelia, a flowering draught of white. The production is as austere, and as grimly concentrated, as Henry V was profuse and ingratiating. Only the wild, heartfelt, munificent language is left at liberty...
Governor Dwight Green of Illinois was having a case of actor's nerve. Aware that the Republican Convention would be televised, the silver-haired keynoter tiptoed into a television studio and tried on some faces. He tried eyebrow pencils, lipsticks and Pancake Make-up (neither Max Factor 23 nor Max Factor 29 was quite right, but Max Factor 28, a nice healthy brown, looked wonderful on the handsome governor). Thinking it all over, he settled for a fast barbershop...