Word: silver
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exhibits will range from the heroic (Eisenhower has received the Distinguished Service Medal, Britain's Order of Merit and dozens of other U.S. and foreign decorations) to the commonplace (goldplated Jackie Gleason recordings, a silver-plated horseshoe that once belonged to Citation). The dazzling diamond, ruby and platinum Soviet Order of Victory contrasts sharply with a simple French pewter pitcher of sand from Normandy's beaches. Military items predominate, but scattered through the collection are some mementos of Ike's youth: the family Bible, in German; his father's gold watchfob and the shiny Rausch & Lang...
...Munich court ended a three-year legal squabble over some grubby last effects of the late Adolf Hitler. To drab little Frau Anni Winter, his onetime housekeeper ("Hitler was always good to me"), the court last week awarded one used Hitler suitcase, five copies of Mein Kampf, a silver-framed photograph, three mediocre watercolors painted by Der Fiihrer himself. The state of Bavaria won custody of three party emblems bearing Hitler's name, plus his leather briefcase and a few of his staff-meeting doodles. Frau Anni promptly announced that she would sell her cherished legacy...
...when two grizzled Andean muleteers came down from the mountains near Santiago to report that they had a "mummy" to sell. They had come upon it, they said, while rooting about in a rock-walled enclosure atop 17,712-ft. El Plomo, where one of them had found some silver objects years ago. The mule drivers offered the body to the Museum of Natural History, but demanded 80,000 pesos ($728) for their find. And all that the government gives the museum each year for purchase and preservation of specimens is 35,000 pesos...
From the outside, the three blue-and-silver buses parked in front of the New York Stock Exchange this week looked like any other passenger buses. But inside, instead of seats, each had three offices filled with desks, radiotelephones, easy chairs, an outlet for a stock market ticker and a board listing 70 stocks. The buses bore the name Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the world's largest brokerage house (113 offices), and they were the firm's latest idea on how to bring Wall Street to Main Street...
Belknap, a Boston architect, was for many years a leading expert in the fields of colonial history, genealogy, and architecture, in early American portraiture and silver work. Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, has noted that Belknap's thinking and style "combined the standards of the past with a very acute perception of the present. He had a sure and enviable grasp of history." Weeks concluded...