Word: blues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tree of Learning. The root stock of Masonry is the so-called Blue Lodge (see chart), which includes the first three degrees and is as far as the great majority of brethren ever progress. Degrees, for all their impressive titles, are simply grades in Masonry's school. In the Blue Lodge the brethren learn all they need to know to be good Masons, including the legend of Hiram Abif...
...Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret:** Or he can work up through the York Rite with fewer degrees but just as much prestige, to the top grade of Knight Templar. Or he can learn both rites. He does not necessarily emerge a better man than his Blue Lodge brother; he merely becomes a more erudite Mason...
...wrestle with Britain's worsening financial plight, the conference of Commonwealth finance ministers met last week. An official later described the cheerless scene in Room D of the British Cabinet Offices: "They sat at blue-black, baize-covered tables in a hollow square, all looking inward and all with their backs to the wall." At one morning session, scheduled to begin at 10:30, a Commonwealth representative arrived ten minutes late. "Good evening," said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, with a frosty smile. "Good afternoon," was the reply...
Heavily muffled passengers in Santiago's trim blue-green tramcars kept their distance last week, averted their faces when a fellow rider coughed. Movies played to half-empty houses night after night. As the year's first snowfall melted on Santiago's streets, Chileans shivered in one of the worst grippe epidemics in their country's history...
...Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountaineers call the parlor the big house and a bull a stock...