Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover week-end outing: A motor ride into the Maryland foothills of the Blue Ridge, where President Hoover got lost on a back road; an inspection of a farm patented in two 50-acre tracts by Andrew Hoover, the President's great-great-great-grandfather, in 1746 and 1748, prior to his migration to North Carolina in 1762. William Zepp now owns the site of the ancestral Hoover home...
...though unobserved. The King, looking greatly improved, chatted briskly with the duke of Connaught. "P'incess Lilybet's" small, creamy elbows rested on the window ledge. Sober, fussy, coatless, were the Lascelles boys, clad in tan shirts, maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When Viscount Lascelles lingered in the window, a voice in the crowd chirped...
...bearing it." Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing of a rank which goes back to the 12th Century, which has been prefixed to the names of famed Murat, Turenne, Ney. Practical, Government officials pointed out that the title...
...ready to receive it, built by the Nationalist government on a hillside overlooking Nanking. Bearing it thither was an elaborate railway funeral coach, pride of the Peking-Hankow Railway, built of hand carved teakwood, fitted with solid silver doors, window frames, light fixtures, its walls draped with Nationalist red, blue, and white silk, its floors muffled with a blue silk run of double thickness. Most important of all, there was in final readiness the last bit of pavement on the Chung Shan Chi Nien-great straight memorial road, eight miles long, 140 feet wide, leading from Nanking...
Only 39 years old, and reputed several times a millionaire, Airman Fokker is a stout, stocky, blue-eyed typical Hollander. His motto is "I do it myself." It is said that he gives every Fokker plane its experimental flight. Fokker stock has gone from 20 to 67 in the last few months...