Word: green
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the street from the White House in the green peace of Lafayette Square, U. S. Government workers continued to eat luncheon quietly amid the strutting pigeons at the foot of the baroque bronze statue of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish patriot who was George Washington's adjutant in the Revolution and who fought most of his life for the independence and territorial integrity of Poland...
...appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near Poplarville, Miss...
With sandbags around its entrances, green shades over its windows, the House of Commons was garbed for war. Still cool, dressed in a black suit and wearing a wing collar, Mr. Chamberlain began, "I do not propose to say many words tonight." He said about 2,000. He spoke in a low voice, fiddled with notes written on small sheets of white paper. He said that Britain's defenses were stronger than in 1914. His voice broke slightly when he read Britain's ultimatum. It grew angry when he said that if Poland remained undefended every country in Europe would...
...phrase coined for British diplomatic publications which had no special covers. Actually the big 1914 war documents of Britain were bound in blue paper. Colors of other nations: Germany, white; France, yellow; Austria-Hungary and the U.S., red; Belgium, grey; Italy, green; Russia, orange...
Author Boyle's little camel was puppyish, bumptious and a liar. Life had made his hard-working old mother cynical since the Arab driver jerked the ring in her tender mouth whenever she slacked up. She really wanted to eat green grass and drink cool water but, she told the youngest camel, "that's just one of the things that can never possibly be. ... Because your father never took out any life insurance." "What about the caravan of white camels with solid gold hoofs that goes right around the earth?" her son objected. "Hooey," said his hard-Boyled...