Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearings opened William B. Shearer himself, in a smart blue suit with a doublebreasted waistcoat and a red-striped necktie sat in. the front row. Beside him sat his New York lawyer, Daniel Florence Cohalan. Promptly Mr. Cohalan protested that Mr. Shearer should be called first to the stand. Senator Shortridge overruled him. First witness was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, President of New York Shipbuilding Co., subsidiary of American Brown Boveri. He told of a conference in which Shearer had been hired to go to Geneva: "The instructions were that he was to go as an observer and report...
Through the thinning blue ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic, gathered last week in Portland, Me., for its 63rd encampment, throbbed a momentous, oft-recurring question. President Hoover, who loves the South, and 31 State Governors, had recommended a grand joint reunion of the G. A. R. and the United Veterans of the Confederacy. Richard A. Sneed, Commander-in-Chief of the U. V. C., in the first official communication ever sent by his organization to the G. A. R., had warmly acquiesced. Octogenarian John Reese of Broken Bow, Neb., Commander-in-Chief...
...scene was a church interior. Over the high altar hung a sign "BETHLEHEM STEEL IS BEST." In the wall were three enormous glass paintings, prominently labeled, depicting three white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford) and a blue-nosed SAINT PIERPONT (Morgan). From an organ suggestively marked THIS ORGAN LUBRICATED BY STANDARD OIL came chords. A choir took up the chant: "Hallelujah, Rockefeller! Hallelujah, Henry Ford! Hosannah, Morgan...
Describe a publisher's daughter, True-blue and gracious...
...Yale blue is the complexion of the U. S. State Department nowadays and Yale blue are the Mexicans' jerseys. Their coach is Reginald Root, burly Yale tackle of 1924-25. He was sponsored by Arthur Bliss Lane, Yale '16. chief of the State Department's Mexican section, and by James Rockwell Sheffield. Yale '87, one-time (1924-27) U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. His presence in Mexico was described as '"'a gesture of good-will." Ambassador Morrow contributed to the necessary fund...