Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbolized by James John Walker, New York City's twice-elected (1925, 1929) mayor. Jimmy Walker, top hat perched jauntily askew, wisecracked his way through the '20s like a handsome Bacchus, and it was perhaps inevitable that he would one day clash with stern, silver-haired Samuel Seabury...
...Seven Years' War, a few months after his precipitous withdrawal by sea from Cherbourg had given France's Duc 'Ai-guillon the exquisite triumph of sending after him "a vessel under a flag of truce to restore the Duke of Marlborough's silver teaspoons which he had left behind in his hurry...
Transfigured View. Malamud is primarily a fantasist who starts out with people as sweaty and real as subway rush-hour passengers, but soon has them clothed in white and silver and singing hosannahs. His characters have the compelling quality of doing astonishingly inappropriate things and then forcing others to recognize a Tightness in their appalling behavior. At his best, Malamud is often as funny and earthy as the great Jewish humorist, Shalom Aleichem. But in his transfigured view of the world he may lie even closer to Francois Mauriac, the Catholic moralist who also holds that "the marks left...
Things began on Friday afternoon, when a friend in Harvard's administrative hierarchy slipped him the word that he didn't get into Eliot House. For Mansley--the Montebank clan's silver-spoon-fed youngest generation (St. Mark's and BUtterfield 8)--it was a deliberate slur on his urbanity. Shaken and embittered and haunted by the persistent spectre of anachronism, Mansley did something a Montebank would never do; he went to the ISA Fair...
...ball splash short in a water hazard. He shot a double-bogey six. Leonard chipped steadily away at par. When he finished the round, Leonard had a total of 275, lowest in tournament history. Casper had 276. That one stroke difference earned Vancouver, B.C. Veteran Leonard 10,000 silver dollars; it brought an $84,260 profit to California's Carl Anderson, the veteran Calcutta player who had bought...