Word: green
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press. This Official Spokesman, strikingly Hooveresque in physical appearance, once a news-gatherer himself (Minneapolis Tribune), had nothing of world import to impart. He said that if Chief Justice William Howard Taft intended to resign, the President had not been so informed; and that if Governor Fred Warren Green of Michigan* (who had arrived that morning to spend a few days at the White House) were going to become Secretary of Labor when James John Davis retires on March 4, it was indeed news to the President...
...This is partly a rearrangement of old UFA shots of animals and insects, partly new material. After a routine educational feature about bees you see how ants get the best of a caterpillar, and how a snail beats them; how they get drunk after drinking a secretion of the green wood bugs. Disguised as a twig, the praying mantis stalks its dinner, and the chameleon, wearing stockings, stalks the praying mantis. The film, winds up with the celebrated fight between the mongoose and the cobra which Paramount interpolated as an allegory in The Letter. It lacks unity but even...
With the political situation eased by the deflation of Dr. Pfrimer, well-groomed, white-chinned Johann Schober, Vienna's paunchy Police President, carefully inspected his green-coated and his khaki-coated constabulary, took stock of the machine guns in his station houses. Then he issued a cryptic but reassuring message in the Wiener Sonnundmontagszeitung (Vienna Sundayandmondaynewspaper...
Colonel Edward Rowland Robinson Green, famed invalid son of the late multimillionairess Hetty Green, received a new automobile to add to his fleet of 25. Built by General Electric Co. and Rauch & Lang Corp., it has a gasoline engine which drives a dynamo and, from the electric current so created, a motor which is connected by a shaft with the rear axle.* Of all Colonel Green's cars only one does he drive, a small electric storage battery car which he uses to go sight-seeing on his estate. Last week, however, he took the wheel...
Ingenious Colonel Green has many mechanical interests. He has a radio station at his estate in South Dartmouth, Mass. He cooperates with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Goodyear Rubber Co. in aircraft and is considering building a 1,000 foot beacon for airship guidance (a taller structure than any in the world). He is said to use an adding machine to compute mah jong scores. He spends his winters in Texas, his summers in Massachusetts, has five girls as wards whom he educates. He disapproves of charity and charge accounts...