Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newlywed Poet), one of his finest works. That same productive year (1917) he published his most famous book, Platero y Yo (Silvery and I), a series of prose-poems telling of his walks in town and country with an amiable, silver-grey donkey. It is one of the great classics of modern Spanish literature, required reading for schoolchildren all over Latin America...
Today the greatest living French artist is 74, silver-haired and slightly stooped. Georges Braque still likes to recall the all-night sessions of talk, drink and accordion playing...
...result of their joint efforts, the clubs have sold over 600 silver shoes at $1.00 apiece, helped in the student drive that raised $2,100 in downtown Boston on Dollars for Democrats Day, provided workers for the Cambridge fund-raising effort in which $3,500 was collected, and are at present working in 12 Cambridge precincts urging Democratic voters to go to the polls. Plans for meeting Adlai Stevenson, when he arrives in Boston October 28, have not yet been completely worked out. Final election day organization is not yet completely crystallized either, but present plans call...
...more parties like this. All through the elaborate, ten-day ceremony that marked the twilight of his greatness, farmers and shopkeepers by the thousand poured into the city from every corner of his old realm, standing in patient lines to glimpse his stables of thoroughbreds, his gold-and-silver coaches, the Daimlers, Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces in his garages. At the great final display in his red-carpeted durbar hall, some 30,000 of them gathered before the shedlike structure, as big as a football field, to see the prince himself...
Huge and amiable, the former autocrat puffed up the gold-and-silver ladder to his jewel-encrusted throne, and just as the royal backside touched the gold-brocaded pillow waiting to receive it, thousands upon thousands of lights blazed up all over the city. Elephants with gilded toenails lumbered past the prince. Indian regimentals struggled bravely to keep their Scottish bagpipes skirling, while acrobats wheeled and tumbled. One by one Mysore's distinguished citizens approached the throne holding an offering of gold, and the maharaja, his diamond earrings ajangle, tapped the proffered coin to show that he accepted...