Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister's valet, and Inspectors Walter Dew and Victor White, his Scotland Yard attendants, may well have been surprised to hear the cannonading and bugle-blowing that went up as their chief, self-styled "missionary of peace," detrained in Washington to find a full-dress military reception. Green, Blue, Red. After visiting the British Embassy and pausing about 75 minutes, part of the motorcade reformed and the Prime Minister was taken to the President. He waited in the Green Room while Ambassador Howard went in to see the President in the Blue Room. Then Sir Esme came back, fetched...
...White House telephone tinkled. Secretary George Akerson answered it. His Chief was calling from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Now, said the President, it could be told: he and Prime Minister MacDonald had agreed to have the latter issue invitations to France, Italy and Japan to discuss naval reductions with Britain and the U. S. in London on Jan. 20. The invitations would go out on the morrow (see p. 27). Like most momentous news it was very simple. There was nothing more to say - yet - about the historic "conversations." So the President helped the world press...
...American Tobacco still holds a dominant position in the trade, is said to handle one-third each of the cigaret and smoking tobacco business, and one-fourth of the plug business. Besides Lucky Strike, its brands include Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lord Salisbury, Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Half and Half, Blue Boar, Cremo. But the American Tobacco Co., as all the world knows, has concentrated on Lucky Strikes, for which most of its 1929 advertising budget of $12,300,000 was spent. The campaign was directed almost entirely by the company's President George Washington Hill. Born of rich parents...
...Yenching University's architecture. Here buildings were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches, sweeping curves and broken lines appropriate to their environment. A typical many-tiered, pagoda-topped tower overlooks an artificial lake, and a pair of gargoyle-like lions guard the multicolored, richly ornamented Alumni gate...
Lord Nestor 0.92 Dormy Blue Rib. Turk...