Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Every morning, through the streets of New York rumble huge, silver-colored trucks. On the back of each truck is a sign: Our City, Yours & Mine. Keep It Clean...
...southernmost Albania, also, the tide of battle was at flood for Greece. One Greek column, piercing through from Konitza, swept up the road from Leskovik toward Corizza, mopping up. Another pressed west along the Voiussa River, aiming at Tepeleni. Two other columns swept down the Dhrino Valley toward Argirocastro ("Silver Fort") and over the mountains toward Porto Edda. One more Greek column pushed up across the Kalamas River out of Epirus, driving the last invader from Greek soil and threatening to wipe him out of southern Albania as well. With the Italians in retreat everywhere, the ultimate object...
...Reported missing last week after an Italian bomber raid into Greece, presumably dead or captured, was hard-boiled Ettore Muti, who resigned as Secretary of the Fascist Party to get actively into the fighting. After several days he turned up alive, whereupon Mussolini gave him a silver medal (his ninth) for organizing and leading an October long-range bombing raid on the defenseless Bahrein Archipelago oil fields...
Trophies at Lough Gur came from all ages: stone axes, flint weapons and tools, a bronze bracelet and bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood...
...words of Author William Blake (ThePainter and the Lady) in a 10? catalogue, and gazed, not always sternly, at a thousand devices in 15 plaques on the walls. The plaques stemmed from the numismatic art of the coin and medal maker; they were beautifully cast in low relief in silver or bronze, in various shades and patinas. How they flowered was something else. Husky, wispy-bearded, bighanded Sculptor David Smith called his plaques "Medals for Dishonor," intended them to be awarded for distinguished service in the art of causing and waging war. Some titles: Propaganda for War, Diplomats, Private...