Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 1943, he was killed storming a German machine-gun nest with a detachment of French Goums in Tunisia's Sedjenane Valley. The Silver Star was awarded to him posthumously. He had also been recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross but that was denied. At the time of his death he was awaiting court-martial for insubordination. They buried him near the spot where he fell...
Opera's Lauritz Melchior, in Berlin on a song tour, asked the Russians please to give him back the antique silver he had stored there during the war. (The Russians, said he, had taken it over from the Danish consul.) Tenor Melchior seemed to be out 200 pounds of silver. "The Russians," he reported presently, "pulled our noses...
Bernard Baruch, 77, dropped his roll at a race track, but not on a horse. He somehow managed to fumble away $2,200 in $100-bills. An attendant found the stuff and returned it two days later. The silver-haired statesman gave him a $500 reward, and leaped to the season's most charitable conclusion. "This proves," he announced, "that everyone at the race track is honest...
Later, when the stars came out over Palomar, the guests too got a peek-at Saturn, which looked like a bright silver dollar amidst its moons and rings. Apparently it took imagination to make much out of it: the New York World-Telegram headlined its story THE SHOW'S A FLOP, but New York Times Science Reporter William L. Laurence wrote that he had been "dazzled by a new radiance from the light of distant stars...
Fogg Art Museum has arranged an exhibition of eighteenth century English silver especially for the ladies...