Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traffic in old Lima, never free-flowing, backed up for blocks. Lima's police fought to keep the crowds in hand. Then out through the studded doors of the Church of the Nazarenas and down the narrow street surged a procession of purple-clad penitents, with a great silver litter supported by straining men in the van. The 200th observance of Peru's most popular religious festival, the fiesta of Our Lord of Miracles, had begun...
March of the Penitents. The Church of the Nazarenas was built around the wall, and the painting, set in a gorgeous silver mounting, was elevated like Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe for all to see. Each year the image of Our Lord of Miracles was borne in procession on visits to other Lima churches. The poorer classes made the festivity their own, and a brotherhood grew up, now numbering some 3,000, to organize the procession and above all, to carry the heavy litter with Our Lord of Miracles...
Lowell: le, Mack, Post; lt, Green, Smith; lg, Frye, D. Thompson; c. Brook; re, Kaelber, P. Thompson; rg, Richardson, Lamoreaux; rt, Silver; backs, Briggs, Cutler, Rueter, Bowditch, Lyne, Lewis, Marble, Allard...
Many of these women . . . gave to these ships such things as athletic equipment, ship's libraries, silver pitchers and trays, deck chairs, radios, victrolas, etc., and we hope that they are still giving pleasure to the men on board the ships today...
...After 100,000 water de-salting kits had been sold WAA belatedly discovered why they were so much in demand at 40? apiece. Each kit contained five ounces of silver, worth around...