Word: silversmithing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard-Yale Intramural Championship Trophy has been presented to the two universities by Edward S. Harkness of New York City. The trophy is a silver two-handled cup, made in London in 1770 by the English silversmith Robert Schofield...
Died. Georg Jensen, 69, Danish silversmith, called by critics the "greatest craftsman in silver for the last 300 years"; in Copenhagen...
...Inside one hazel nut lie 3,000 silver spoons, all beaten by the skillful hand of Ah King, Canton silversmith...
...over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years he consistently cribbed Morleyisms in his daily columns, now in book form. Wrote "Chris" Morley...
...Verbal Silversmith Morley thereupon tabulated 30 examples of similarities between McIntyre phrases and excerpts from his own works written several years earlier. Samples...