Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Queen Eleanor, whose domestic difficulties resulted in the convent's foundation, still lay in her royal robes, her hand still covered by a white calfskin glove embroidered in green silk. From other tombs came exquisite brocade bonnets. The colors of the silks were as bright as though dyed yesterday. There was even a bunch of tiny withered roses, a token of personal tenderness 700 years...
While most of the doctors attended technical meetings or watched color-televised operations, the 191-member house of delegates met at a long, green-topped table in the Hotel Statler. A.M.A. President Ernest Irons made no bones about it: the meetings were being held in Washington to make sure that the doctors' drumfire was heard by their enemies in government offices...
...Britain. To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century British manners & morals seen through the eyes of an old Victorian individualist. England's shyest novelist and one of her best, Henry Green, made his American bow with Loving. A dense, subtly written and poetic novel of character with an Irish-castle setting, it fully deserved the British critical puffs that preceded it. The most overrated British novel of the year was Hope Muntz's care fully researched but woodenly written...
...thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual...
...recent meetings, the Social Relations Society gave a demonstration of a new kind of group psychotherapy. It is called "Psychodramas," and its inventor, J. L. Moreno, was on hand to run the show. The new yellow, red, and green psychotheater on Mt. Auburn street was filled to standing-room-only for the occasion...