Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polls, it cannot be denied that Mr. Harriman's vacillating character and Mayor Wagner's indecisiveness were also repudiated. If Tammany Hall Carmine De Sapio slaughtered the ceremonial pig on which Mr. Rockefeller dined, Governor Harriman and Mayor Wagner served it to him on a sterling silver tray, with an apple in its mouth...
...Twelve silver trumpets sounded, and the procession entered the vast church. Behind representatives of the ancient orders-Franciscans, Dominicans, Benedictines, Cistercians-walked dignitaries of Rome's churches, breastplated Swiss guardsmen, velvet-clad chamberlains of honor, honorary privy chaplains, patriarchs, mace-bearers and scarlet-mantled cardinals, fan bearers and Noble Guards. In the chapel of St. Gregory, the cardinals made obeisance to the Pope, kissing his right hand. Then John XXIII was vested to celebrate his solemn papal Mass...
...Surrealism was her first great passion, and it took her into a marriage to Max Ernst. Abstract expressionism was her second, and included a penchant for Jackson Pollock as a man. Now, full of years and honor, she lives in a Venetian palace, paints her toes and fingers silver, and has her own gondoliers sashed in blue to match her eyes. They call her "L'Ultima Dogaressa." Saarinen's book shows that collectors are people (and not always the best people.) They may not always have known much about art, but America's great collectors bought what...
...married . . ." But when Jim gets around to long thoughts about the landscape, Author Salamanca puts down these words about a summer storm: "It gets gray and cool and then the wind comes gusty from the mountains . . . and the tossing trees in the wind are like oceans with little silver fish slipping through the tops of the waves...
...from his fourth to his 17th year in and around Charlottesville, Va. The book is drunk on nature, the round of the seasons, the beauty of women. Whatever lucky Jim wants in females he gets, whether it is Neighbor Betty Lee, whose "cool firm thighs were like two great silver carp," or Cousin Nory, whose thighs, "with their milk-white, melon-firm flesh, struck his mind with ruinous astonishment." or Schoolteacher Irene, whose thighs are "like moist and mobile alabaster...