Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huston, tall, lean, with slate-blue eyes and tight lips, claimed credit for first breaking the Solid South, because, with his help, Harding carried Tennessee in 1920. Under Secretary Hoover he served two years as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Firm friends they became, have remained to this day. Mr. Huston raised a half million dollars for the 1924 campaign, even more for 1928. In Tennessee he is, among other things, vice president of the Chattanooga Wheelbarrow...
Salt herrings and blue blood account for Norway's choice as umpire. The good value she gives in selling fish to the Soviet monopoly has made her sturdy friends at Moscow; and her tall, vigorous King Haakon VII is the only living brother-in-law of Britain's frail, gallant George V. Naturally the new British Labor Government thought first of Neighbor Norway when it decided to make conciliatory overtures to Russia through some honest friendly little state...
...Swanherds in scarlet coats rowed each boat. At the tiller of each sat a Swanmaster. whose duty it was to steer and watch for swans. Vintners' and Dyers' skiffs carried the banners of their guilds at the stern and other swan flags (red for the Vintners, blue for the Dyers) at their prow. Supervising the entire Swan-upping was Keeper of the King's Swans, F. T. Turk whose sinecure entitles him to live in St. James's Palace...
Last week Equity's campaign was spirited. More and more Hollywood automobiles carried blue Equity emblems. In Hollywood's American Legion arena, where filmdom sees weekly boxing bouts, 3,000 of the Equity faithful met. Cried one: "Let there be sound and fury, pickets and turmoil! This is a labor fight." Cried another, pompously: "We are not laborers, but artists. Let there be no uproar." Then arose an American Federation of Labor delegate. "Remember," he said, "until you joined labor in the 1919 strike you were gypsies. You had no dignity...
...murmur swelled: "They are coming!" Out the portal, down the steps of the basilica marched detachments of Papal gendarmes in towering busbies. The blue-clad Palatine Guards wore helmets topped with lazy plumes. Followed many monks and the first of a host of 5,000 seminarians from all over the world. Four abreast, chanting, bearing lighted tapers, they followed the line of march beneath Bernini's massive colonnade which encloses St. Peter's Square. This took them in serpentine procession around a huge circle, back to the basilica steps. When the column's head drew up before the church...