Word: green
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tall and green is the corn grown by the Farmers Hoffman on their Blue Ribbon Farm near Somerville, N. J. Tall and grim are the factories that have grown up there in the last generation, where Johns-Manville Co. makes asbestos products and the factory village of Manville has clustered like industrial fungus...
...told of its glories. Barefoot along the dirt path they rolled their hoops. Passing the Klementovich shanty they stopped, invited Helen and Joe to come too. Some other children joined the party at the Hoffman field but left early. The Kolesars and Klementoviches stayed on; walking through the tall green corn, picking the ears. They were going to make a fire in the nearby woods and cook some "supper...
...recover from the setback it suffered under General Lincoln Andrews. . . . He multiplied publicity, created a public psychology in his own favor . . . began to put in office men who were temperamentally and in every other way unfitted for the task. His notorious appointments . . . Roscoe Harper . . . Frank Hale. . .Major Walton Green . . . Ned M. Green. . . . I refuse to believe that out of our 100,000,000 population and perhaps 20,000,000 who believe in prohibition 4,000 [agents] cannot be found who cannot be bought...
...four scenes were designed by young Juan G. Novelo. In the first scene, Tuluum is not the fortress-like ruin of that name on the Caribbean Sea but is revived with terraces, temples, palaces, facing inland against a background of green sea, blue sky. In the last scene, Chichen-Itza rears its pyramids from the dust of ages...
...liked: poker, his Gila monster and alligators, practical jokes with electricity, flattery, a lamp-and-mirror arrangement by which incoming female visitors would see themselves suddenly, the color green, down-and-outers, steak and potatoes, bicycle riding, a personal letter from Russia's Lenin refusing his aid in Soviet electrification...