Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure, said one paper, there was a good harpist at the Royal Dublin Society's concert, but she was a Russian. Besides, said another, the traditional harp of the great Brian Boru had 30 strings, and this heraldic harp had only 15, for all that they were silver. And anyway, wasn't it the Sassenach heretic King Henry VIII who made the harp Ireland's official symbol in the first place when he decided that the three crowns of ancient Ireland looked too much like a Popish tiara...
...small (5 ft. 1 in.), but as she came onstage last week in Spokane, her silver-spangled white satin dress and three-inch heels somehow managed to make her look commanding...
...call-long distance from a man named Nicholas P. Daphne-came through at midnight. Silver-maned Frank Lloyd Wright struggled out of bed to answer it, heard an unfamiliar voice at the other end of the wire saying: "I've got the finest site, in the heart of San Francisco, and I want the finest mortuary in the world. So I figure," the voice pursued, "I need the finest architect in the world...
...they have found 1,500 objects: gold and silver jewelry, carved signets, artistic glassware and pottery. Here a considerable city must have flourished, perhaps 3,000 years ago. Its inhabitants, to judge from skeletons found on the site, were strapping fellows well over six feet tall. But who they were and what happened to them the Soviet diggers have not decided, and they have published no details...
...concerned about figures. He believes that Americans are too extreme both at work and at play. At Aspen he would like to create a symbol of balance. To do so he plans to promote industries in Aspen that will make woodwork out of native aspen, jewelry out of native silver, clothes out of mountain sheep's wool, cheese from the milk of local cattle. It will be no accident, however, if Paepcke, whose Container Corp. does some $75,000,000 worth of business a year, also turns Aspen into a tidy profit...