Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This tiny modern bar made from two wall closets measures only three yards square. The whole room is finished in silver leaf, with the walls striped in blue, silver and copper color. Linoleum painted black, ivory, pink and tan covers the floor and the lights are tubes of frosted blue glass...
...closure of a public nuisance. There is a recent decision by the State Court of Appeals that a speakeasy is a public nuisance. Also in New York are Grover Aloysius Whalen, the Police Commissioner; Maurice Campbell, the local U. S. Prohibition Administrator; and a tidal sentiment against Prohibition.* Tall, blue-eyed, cinematically handsome, fastidiously dressed. Administrator Campbell rose to Major in the Army Ordnance Corps during the War. For three years (1919-22) he was a cinema director for Famous Players-Lasky (Oh, Lady, Lady, She Couldn't Help It, Ducks and Drakes, Two Weeks with Pay, March Hare...
North Carolina's labor troubles were by no means confined to the Communist-led strike at Gastonia and its aftermath, the Charlotte murder trial (see above). At the Blue Ridge foothill town of Marion, an-other textile strike, directed by the conservative United Textile Workers of America, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, "went rough" last week, led to the summoning of National Guardsmen...
Baptiste Point du Sable, a Negro, was Chicago's first inhabitant. A fugitive Kentucky slave, he lived there before blue-coated, pig-tailed U. S. soldiers occupied the banks of Garlic Creek. Then Fort Dearborn was wrenched from the soldiers by the Indians and for several years the garrison's burned bones stuck out of the sand...
Hellman's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise...