Word: green
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...casket. On a mulberry-colored cushion rested the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin, carried it cautiously down the green-carpeted gangplank, through the purple-and-black draped pier to a black caisson drawn by six horses. As if freighted with the sorrow of two nations, the casket became unmanageably heavy. In 30 hands it swayed perilously. Others leaped forward and with much straining helped to hoist it into position...
Hoffman was similarly pounced upon in the hotel lobby, blindfolded, forcibly despatched to the North Carolina line. Five men, one a foreman at the Bemberg plant, were later arrested, held for trial. President William Green of the A. F. of L. protested the "outrage" to Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton...
Good recent Wallaces are The Clever One, an engrossing tale of counterfeit money, and The Twister, ingenious yarn of English race tracks and Dutch diamond swindles. Old favorites are: A King by Night, The Green Archer, The Door with Seven Locks, The Girl From Scotland Yard, two of which Queen Mary bought at a London three-penny-six-penny shop for the king (TIME, March...
...Prescription Stores; Chicago, Wright & Lawrence. A development of the past few years is the prescription office, with its waiting room like a doctor's or dentist's. In small communities, despite the handiness of telephones and the ubiquity of physicians, the druggist still has his red and green gloves in his window, still has a bell button for emergency customers to wake him up in the middle of night for oil of cloves or paregoric...
...That President Hoover would bring Efficiency and Organization to the White House no one ever doubted. First he cleaned up the presidential desk, had removed the old green student's lamp, the ornate paper weights, the jar of smelling salts...