Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives today in an apartment on a street called Linwood Place in St. Paul, Minn. Aged 68, he is tall, rawboned, mustached. His eyes are pale blue. He dresses neatly and simply-black hat, oldtime wash necktie (or a hook-on bow), celluloid collar. His automobile is a 1927 Studebaker. He does not drive it. Neither does he drive golf or tennis balls. He chews tobacco, spits the juice. He plays solitaire, reads Shakespeare, keeps a garden farm near Granite Falls, Minn. A widower, he has a daughter named Laura, who drives the Studebaker and keeps the house. Last week...
...Just a sweet little green island set in the blue waters of the Irish Sea, with its rolling hills and slumbrous glens, full of gorse and heather and fern; three or four quaint little fishing ports and one larger town devoted to the joyous and rather rollicking life of the visiting industry...
...inspired, but not incited, by the nun. Mother Concepcion, herself, explained that four years ago cruel laws had driven her from her convent, and that her house had become a centre where people liked to gather for spiritual consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison blouse and showed reporters a cross branded on her breast, said: "In suffering there is redemption. I've been happy all the time I've been in jail-would give drop by drop my blood, if I could end this conflict...
...golds were made at 40 yards. A gold is the innermost circle of the target, counts nine points in scoring. The target consists of a central disc, 9.6 inches in diameter, four concentric rings each 4.8 inches wide, painted respectively from within out, gold, nine points; red, seven; blue, five; black, three; white, one point. Dr. Roberts made six golds...
...Case Corp. (makers of Movietone) three weeks ago offered George Gershwin tens of thousands to let them use his tiresomely admired "Rhapsody in Blue" and to write incidental cinema music for them. He was cagey about terms and coy about the picture work. Although he publicly declared that he would not write music for the cinema, last week he was still considering Fox offers...