Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town house was redecorated and bedizened with a $2,000,000 (Billy's estimate) collection of paintings, a $50,000 collection of Paul Storr silver, and what Billy calls "all the latest antiques." In this hushed splendor, Billy and Eleanor play house. "Billy has changed," says an admiring friend, "from a Lindy table-hopper to a sumptuous host." The Rose parties are small but as meticulously cast as a Broadway production. "Conversation," says Billy, "is the password." It admits such famed raconteurs as George Kaufman, Ferenc Molnar, Ludwig Bemelmans and Leopold Stokowski...
Last week, over 7,500 poems later, Anne found proof that her folksy sentiment had won a public of its own. Fifteen hundred of her fans gathered in the Masonic Temple for a silver anniversary. There were special tables full of people whose causes she had supported: the Salvation Army, the Old Newsboys, the Michigan Crippled Children's Hospital. Detroit's Mayor Edward J. Jeffries saluted her. The president of Wayne University, David D. Henry, said that "she has helped to make our town great...
Postcards & Turtledoves. As the 278-year-old process* ended in the Holy City last week, Roman citizens had a field day with the first batch of pilgrims they had seen in years. One old Swiss woman with a strange silver headdress covering her huge bun of white hair got a 100-lira note from a moneychanger in exchange for her 100-Swiss-franc note (worth more than 20,000 lire). Postcard peddlers got rich...
...lounged on the benches or in the double-decker bunks, reading pulp magazines by the dull oil lamps. The rafters over the hot stoves were festooned with drying socks. As soon as the poker players cleared the cards and money from the table, the minister set up his small silver cross and two candles and began to talk...
...leave Harry and find a tired-looking, silver-haired broker resting for another go at the pit. What was all the excitement about today? He keeps an eye on the pit and says: 'It's a nervous market. On Wednesday the Government came back into the cash wheat market after being out for three, four months. . . . The market turned into a mad house. May wheat went up the limU-from $2.67 to $2.77. Then Thursday morning it went up to $2.85. Then the market was top-heavy on the buying side; those who had bought took their profits...