Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking hard for a silver lining, Marshall Field Jr., now assistant to Finnegan, said: "Now we certainly ought to get into the black." But staffers had their doubts. Round-the-clock papers have seldom worked well except in monopoly cities, where readers had no choice but to buy them morning & night. Newsmen once more asked an old question: did Marshall Field intend to stay in the newspaper business...
Proletarian Breath. At the Congress' opening session, Guest Speaker Palmiro Togliatti, dapper Communist boss, suavely declared: "Comrades, we feel profoundly united to you." Silver-haired Sicilian Giuseppe Casadei chimed in: "When peasants go to occupy feudal lands, should they go in separate groups, one Communist, one Socialist? When we face Fascist rifle fire, shall the Communists be in one square and the Socialists in another?" Sweepingly he pointed to a placard: "We want the powerful Socialist Party to be the vanguard of the united Popular Democratic Front." Cried he: "There, comrades, is the way to end proletarian enslavement...
...held crowds, kings and skating judges spellbound. Watching Henie skate did queer things to people: ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany once beckoned her to his box and gave her a diamond stickpin he was wearing; Adolf Hitler presented her with a huge picture of himself in a silver frame, flatteringly inscribed; Benito Mussolini simply said: "I wish I could skate like her." Besides skill and showmanship, Sonja possessed a talent for covering up the few technical mistakes she made...
Just as the music was beginning and Barbara Ann was set to flash onto the ice, the loudspeaker screeched. The racket might have unnerved a lesser competitor. Cool and calm in silver-braided chiffon, Barbara Ann waited easily, then, at the first musical note, was off with a sparkle of skates. When the last strain of Babes in Toyland had crackled away, and seven international judges had gravely conferred, Barbara Ann Scott was unanimously voted, for the second year in a row, Europe's champion woman figure skater...
...nearly 1,000 years, brave and able seamen have feared the Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile sandbank just north of Dover. Thousands of ships have foundered in their sucking sands; with the hulks are buried tens of thousands of seamen, and cargoes of gold, silver and jewels...