Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Mormons while he served the corporations which owned the mines, the timber and the Republican Party in the State. He was the bridegroom of blonde Mamie McConnell (whose papa was Governor of Idaho). He was a renegade Republican, going down with the Democrats and Bryan and 16-to-1 Silver in 1896, striding back unchastened to the Republican Party in 1900. He was a theatrical, compelling, blackmaned orator, bewitching the people into making the Legislature send him to the U. S. Senate in 1907. Thereafter, until he died last week, he was Borah of Idaho...
...traditional boast of many a U. S. politico has been: ". . . Up from nothing." Bob Taft came up from plenty. Says he, who had more than one silver spoon in his cradle: "One with a family name has a lot to live up to." But Lawyer Taft, Yale '10, put the spoons to work. Uncle Charles had a chunk of Cincinnati's Street Railway System, wanted the complicated setup reorganized. Specializing in dry, dull, technical cases, Bob Taft worked on this complex chore off-&-on for eleven years, finished straightening it out in 1925. In this...
Juno and the Paycock (by Sean O'Casey; produced by Edward Choate & Arthur Shields in association with Robert Edmond Jones). Flung on the Broadway pavement many times since it was minted in Dublin in 1924, Juno and the Paycock still rings out like a silver coin. Whatever its faults, there is nothing pinched or paltry about it. Its stagecraft is clumsy at times and its plot too theatrical, but its background is richly Irish and its two middle-aged title characters-sturdy, ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno and her strutting, shiftless, drunken Paycock of a husband-are abundantly alive...
Mayor Tobin, head of the Birthday Ball Committee, will present the final winner and his or her partner with a silver loving...
...College silver and silver historically connected with the University as well as college plate are now on display in the Fogg Art Museum. The exhibition will be kept open to the end of exam period, February...