Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auditorium in Hawthorne (pop. 1,861), and threaded his way through the miners, gamblers, shopkeepers and housewives who were his faithful followers. As he stopped for a moment to listen to a constituent's problem, he was still a picture-book Senator: generous girth, flashing blue eyes, and silver hair curling down around his collar. Then his knees buckled, and as he fell to the floor, his heart stopped. Pat McCarran, one of the most powerful political figures in the U.S., was dead...
...many an indolent, skeptical fellow, Melbourne was fatally attracted by vigorous, strong-willed women. His wife, Caroline Ponsonby (known in Whig circles as "the Fairy Queen"), was fond of her amiable husband, but fonder, it was said, of such rare thrills as being "carried [into dinner] concealed under a silver dish cover, from which she emerged on the dinner table stark naked...
...Snack of Glass. When "Queen" Caroline met Lord Byron, even the robustest Whig was rocked by the resulting drama. Caroline dressed up as Poet Byron's page boy in a silver-laced jacket and scarlet pantaloons, bit large pieces out of her wine glass when she saw him talking to another woman. But Melbourne stood staunchly by his Fairy Queen, watching her glittering hysteria degenerate into madness. She died in 1828, leaving him the father of a half-witted...
Actress Lollobrigida won the Silver Ribbon (the Italian Oscar) for her work in this picture, and in truth she throws herself into the part so violently that once or twice she almost throws herself out of her dress. She is perhaps unwise thus to spoil her own act by inviting comparison with a far more spectacular...
Zuch imagined they were rushed, since they left his ring and silver cigarette case untouched...