Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conductor Pierre Monteux, who had put the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra through seven rehearsals of it, scowled at the notes through his silver-rimmed glasses. After working their way through tricky phrases, the violinists looked as if they had been slapped in the face by the score. The audience, which took it tensely but manfully, seemed grateful for Tchaikovsky's threadbare Piano Concerto No. 1, which followed...
Just before it became a ghost in 1894, the crowded, rough mining town of Aspen, Colo, had a last burst of excitement. From Smuggler Mine on a nearby slope, prospectors took out a nugget of almost pure silver weighing 2,060 pounds...
...EDWIN SILVER...
Last August, to curb blatant cigaret trading, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, then Deputy Military Governor, opened a legal barter center in Berlin's swank Dahlem district. Through one door, Americans swarmed with their cartons. Through another, Berliners brought their bric-a-brac, silver, china, cameras, radios, furs; the cigarets the Germans got in exchange bought food and clothing on Berlin's black market...
Pearls & Pirates. Once Cartagena, metropolis of the Spanish Main, was the great port where the gold of Peru, the silver of Bolivia and the pearls of Rio Hacha (in Colombia) had awaited shipment in the annual convoy to Spain. The treasures drew freebooters and pirates-English and French; even today the names of Hawkins and Drake and Morgan are as familiar to Cartageneros as the names of Dion O'Bannion and Al Capone are to Chicagoans...