Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, enraged Italians promptly challenged him to duels. One challenge came from Lawyer Giorgio Mollica, 44, who has had five encounters with sword and saber on the field of honor, and wears the Italian Silver Medal for gallantry as an underground partisan behind the German lines...
...pressure of price law amendments was heavy on just about everything else in the family budget. Last week OPA lifted the lid on galoshes, rubbers and sterling silver flatware; ceiling increases of 4.8% were authorized on children's tricycles, scooters, and wagons...
...roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
Hobnobbing with Headliners. She liked the life-checking in & out of hotels, hopping planes, eating in restaurants, hobnobbing with headline names. Winters, when the tournament season is over, she rarely spends an evening in the Betzes' small Los Angeles apartment, where the family serves vegetables in her sterling silver trophies. Usually she is to be found with movie folk, especially the Bill Powells. At the elegant Beverly Hills Tennis Club, she has little trouble beating Cinemactors Paul Lukas and Robert Taylor...
...that distinguishes him, it is his ability to keep the lip stiff and upper and make the best of things. Though crushed to earth, as the expression is, he rises again-not absolutely in midseason form, perhaps, but perkier than you would expect and with an eye alert for silver linings...