Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vivid Kentuckiana: blue grass. Bourbon whiskey, the Derby. Mammoth Cave. -ED. Drunk Definitions...
Tall and green is the corn grown by the Farmers Hoffman on their Blue Ribbon Farm near Somerville, N. J. Tall and grim are the factories that have grown up there in the last generation, where Johns-Manville Co. makes asbestos products and the factory village of Manville has clustered like industrial fungus...
...newsgatherer for the potent, manager-favoring Cleveland Plain Dealer felt embarrassed, sneaked out of the room for a smoke. He had been politely informed that it was not proper to use tobacco before so many ladies. Pickles, sandwiches, coffee, radishes and ice cream were served. With bows and smiles, blue and purple asters were passed to the ladies who had carried the day for the modern form of municipal government. The outcome of the election made round, gallant Manager Hopkins feel as exhilarated as a small boy who, expecting to fail at school, finds he has passed every thing...
...York. Herman Rittner (alias John De Leon, John Bennett, John Meyers, Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year...
...four scenes were designed by young Juan G. Novelo. In the first scene, Tuluum is not the fortress-like ruin of that name on the Caribbean Sea but is revived with terraces, temples, palaces, facing inland against a background of green sea, blue sky. In the last scene, Chichen-Itza rears its pyramids from the dust of ages...