Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, the girl, who listens to the tipsters will come up with a gift-wrapped riding crop with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
...lady caused a perceptible flurry. The Inverchapels were divorced in 1945, remarried last August. This was their first appearance at an official White House reception since then. Inverchapel was in white tie and sash. His blonde Chilean-born lady wore an eye-filling strapless gown embroidered in silver sequins...
...nominated by petition are: Jay Fialkow, Stanley J. Friedman, J. Anthony Lewis, Merton L. Madway, Alfred Miller, David B. Reed, and Daniel J. Silver...
...squad honored their three coaches and their captain with gifts. Chief Boston received a leather travelling, bag, while backfield coach Clee O'Donnell, '46 varsity captain, line coach Eddle Davis, tackle on the '46 varsity team, and '47 J.V. captain Ozzie Keiver received silver eigarette lighters...
...Silver-haired Sam Breadon stepped out of his St. Louis office into a corridor crowded with reporters. They had been kept waiting half an hour. They knew as well as Breadon (rhymes with raidin') what the news would be, but he found it hard to get it out. Said the boss of the St. Louis Cardinals: "Uh-the Cardinals, that is uh-uh-a deal has been consummated. The Cardinals have been sold...