Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen hundred cups of free beer (also Coca-Cola for abstainers), a continuous concert by Schneider's Silver Cornet Band, and a warm, post-general examinations, spring evening are expected to lure over half of the graduating class to the gathering. Arrangements will be cancelled in the event of rain...
...Hero. In Stafford Cripps, paradox was at home. He was a millionaire descended from a long line of rich country squires, but he was born with a silver Fabian slogan in his mouth. His aunt & uncle were Fabianism itself-Sidney and Beatrice Webb. He believed first in God ("Frame our judgments . . . upon the basis of what we most truly and honestly believe to be God's will"). Second, he believed in Socialism...
...General Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his farewell tour of the NATO countries to attend the funeral Mass of a friend, French Hero General Henri Coudraux, a deputy chief of staff to SHAPE. Ike followed the old French custom which calls for chief mourners, whether lay or clerical, to dip a silver goupillon in holy water and sprinkle it on the coffin. Later, Ike took to his bed with a throat infection and fever, which further delayed his goodbye tour...
Died. Victor Mikhailovich Chernov, 78, president of Russia's freely elected Constituent Assembly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Patriarch of Russian emigres in the U.S., bearded, silver-maned Chernov helped found the Social Revolutionary Party in 1900, became, for a few momentous weeks in 1917, Minister of Agriculture under Kerensky. He was elected president of the Assembly, which Lenin's soldiers dispersed on Jan. 18, 1918 after one all-night meeting. Chernov was driven into hiding, exile and a lifelong struggle against the Bolshevik dictatorship...
...Maundy Thursday rites, the paupers' footwashing had been reduced to the merest symbolism: white linen aprons worn by her yeomen bodyguards. In the Abbey ceremony, however, the Queen followed faithfully the custom of her ancestors in distributing white purses of maundy money (26 pence worth of specially minted silver coins) to 26 men and 26 women (one for each year of her age), all carefully chosen and suitably aged and indigent...