Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House a day earlier than planned; she dominated the traditional holiday reception the next morning for the 700 members of the White House staff. Accompanied by Mamie Eisenhower, in a Christmas-red wool jersey dress, the President accepted congratulations beneath an 18-ft. spruce Christmas tree decorated with silver tinsel and electric candles. Everyone at the reception got a Christmas present from the new grandfather: a print of an oil painting that the President started the week before his late heart attack and finished painting in the hospital at Denver. The print showed a snowscape of St. Louis Creek...
...literary lights, e.g., Barrie, Maugham. Shaw's later letters to him are scrappy business notes mildly intriguing as a penny-pinching portrait of Shaw guarding his royalties as if he were a branch Bank of England. Golding Bright died in 1941, after some years of renown as a silver-haired dandy who showed up at London first nights in a swirling black cape, with a gold-knobbed stick, and regularly dozed through the play. Nonetheless, he could give uncannily accurate estimates of how long a play would run, suggesting that at least some of Shaw's precepts...
GIDEON CROCKETT JOHNSON SILVER SPRINGS...
...referred his patrons to the prior of his monastery, saying for himself: "True riches consist in being contented with little." Florence's prosperous Guild of Flaxworkers took a more businesslike attitude. Their contract specified that their three-paneled painting be done "inside and out with gold, blue and silver of the best and finest." In payment they offered Fra Angelico "one hundred and ninety gold florins for the whole and for his craftsmanship, or for as much less as his conscience shall deem it right to charge...
When asked how her garden grew, Mary did not always give the same answer. At least once she replied: "With silver bells, And cockle shells:/ Sing cuckolds all on a row." And in Nancy Cock's Pretty Song Book, published around 1780, the row of cuckolds may be seen in a pretty woodcut, horns...