Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White Blossoms. Roerich never returned to the U.S. With his wife and son he retired far from the world of Wallaces and Peglers to his beloved Kulu Valley in the Punjab, the "Silver Valley." "Whether in winter," he once wrote, "when the snowy cover sparkles, or in spring, when all the fruit trees are covered with snowy-white blossoms, the valley equally well merits this name." He had noted that its healthy people did not have cancer. There Roerich, drinking in the mysteries of Hindu and Buddhist shrines, also tried to learn what diet or beneficent rays or simple ways...
...sons, Jean, 24, and André, 22, decorate the flat with red paper bells and ribbon, trim the tree with baubles, set up a little creche with an electric light above it. She had to make certain that the maid set the réveillon table with red-candled silver candelabra and the beautiful lace cloth Madame had crocheted herself 25 years ago. Then there were presents...
...famed Emporia Gazette ladled Christmas bonuses to its employees out of a wheelbarrow full of silver dollars...
...Happy Ending. O-Yuki herself refused to read it. Silver-haired and unwrinkled at 66, she was living in retirement at Kyoto. She has steadfastly refused to see the book's author or to give him any information. But, outside of a few invented romantic incidents, 60-year-old Novelist Mikihiko Nagata is pretty confident of his accuracy. In any case, he says, 0-Yuki's is a truly beautiful love story "because, unlike Madame Butterfly, the ending is not tragic...
...Ranier, Washington, prides itself on both open slopes and trails, and is the annual scene of the Silver Skis race, second only to Mt. Washington's Grand Inferno race in length. Mt. Baker, north-west of Ranier, will vie for Washington's First Mountain when its development, now underway, is completed...