Word: blueing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the great battle of Rancocas Creek, staged last week as a theoretical military problem. The Red "invaders" were non-existent except for a handful of officers to outline their positions. The Blue "defenders" were composed of 6,000 flesh-and-blood officers and men drawn from the regular Army, the National Guards of New York and New Jersey, the organized Reserve, all under the command of Major General Hanson Edward Ely, commander of the Second Corps Area. Except for the activities of the staff officers of 32 commands, of telegraph, telephone and typewriter operators, of motorcycle messengers, chauffeurs...
...propaganda sheet called the Daily Ananias was rained down upon the Blue Forces. To break enemy morale, it stated: "Blues Poison More Wells," "Prisoners Surrender to Reds Voluntarily," "Blues Fear Red Bayonets," "Mutinous Blue Soldiers Hang Colonel...
...Publisher Patterson. Since the day Liberty started, the Patterson eye has read, the Patterson hand has personally okayed every story, every article that has gone into his magazine, in much the same manner that his grandfather, the late great Publisher Joseph Medill, had put "J. M. Must" in blue pencil on every news story that appeared in his Tribune years...
Albertine has blue, almond-shaped eyes and her black hair ripples. Jealous of her girl friends, unable to do without her in her absence yet often feeling bored in her presence, the "I" of the story takes Albertine to live with him in his house. There he discovers that "love ... is what we feel for a person whose actions seem rather to arouse our jealousy." If Albertine arouses her "darling Marcel's" jealousy, it is through small fault of her own, for she most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening...
...these novelties. During the 1928-29 Palm Beach season cotton was an outstanding success. During the present season cotton fabrics have been conspicuously successful. Once sold to the smart world, it was certain that cotton would be sold to all the world. When sales are made in the Blue Book, the Telephone Book soon follows...