Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...track so as not to miss a glimpse of the royal couple. Along the boulevards the crowds were solid: young men with girls on their shoulders, midinettes who buzzed about Elizabeth's elegantly homely clothes, and elderly gentlemen with Legion of Honor rosettes in their frayed buttonholes, silver-topped canes swinging gently in their gloved hands. People broke police barriers, crying "Serrez-moi la main!" (Let me shake your hand). One gouty old woman was perched atop a stepladder which her equally gouty old husband kept from toppling over. "Now she steps out of the car, like a queen...
...years, the majestic Saguenay River defaulted on its promise. Jacques Cartier was fooled by the Indians' tales of a great kingdom in its valley, and of another empire beyond that, rich in silver & gold, diamonds & rubies. Explorers soon found that this icy, inky tributary of the St. Lawrence was no Northwest Passage: it was navigable for only 80 miles. Above the Indian village of Chicoutimi, "the end of the deep water," the river ran white and turbulent-and, it seemed, useless-from Lake St. John...
...Jerome Kern score has not lost too much of its charm, and in such a tune as Look for the Silver Lining has not lost any. The dances, as arranged by Richard Barstow, at times have a gaiety that is both real and reminiscent. And there is something almost touching about the unabashed Cinderella plot-the little dishwasher who winds up as a hit in the Follies...
...Howard Sally has a star, it seldom lets him shine. In the role originally played by Leon Errol, Howard talks twaddle that is too refined. Only here & there can he muscle out of the show-with some triumphantly low-down touch, or by singing variations on Look for the Silver Lining...
...Terre Haute, Ind., William Dudley Pelley, ex-Silver Shirts leader serving 15 years for sedition, lost a fight to spring himself on a writ of habeas corpus...