Word: green
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty, not military, not smartly turned out (a greyish green overcoat and a chromium badge), not paid, but by all odds the biggest, most valuable and most womanly of British female war work units is the Women's Voluntary Service. Their big test came on the morning of Aug. 31, when the Ministry of Health flashed WVS's chief, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, to get the children and invalids out of urban danger spots...
...mark to do just that since June 1938. From London headquarters Lady Reading shot twelve telegrams to her twelve regional chiefs (in Britain's twelve autonomous defense zones). They shot 2,000 telegrams to their local branches. From Lands End to John 0'Groats the grey-green overcoats began to gather their cars around station platforms. Other grey-green overcoats in London were leading little lines of towheads with lunch boxes and gas masks to Euston, Waterloo, Charing Cross, Victoria, Paddington stations, stuffing them into cars with more grey-green overcoats headed for whatever destination the clearest track...
...Like green socks with green ties, and a green...
Perhaps this situation will throw the most consternation into the face of the two great West Coast crows, California and Washington, who went into their seasons last year with relatively green outfits, partially through necessity and partially through the hope of building up an Olympic crew. Now the climax of the coming season is nonexistent, and these two top notch crews are apt to suffer from anticlimax all through the year...
Inspired by Fuller, metropolitan papers report that the Big Green is woefully weak in material. Injuries and academic standards have riddled the team's prospects. The boys are so small that Fuller in an optimistic moment labelled them the "mighty mites." Why, there's not a man over 250 pounds...