Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rickety, hotel-like old building had been a landmark on the rolling New Jersey countryside, just 50 miles from Manhattan, for more than a century. One of its walls had fallen out, its broad porches sagged, its faded green shutters seemed ready to disintegrate. Last week when an auctioneer called for bids on it to satisfy a court order, only one voice was raised. The buyer-one Carl After of Brooklyn-got the whole sprawling ruin and a handsome set of ghosts for only...
After the last kudos and kisses for Serge Koussevitzky last week (TIME, May 9), workmen swarmed into Boston's Symphony Hall. Some" splashed the downstairs walls with gay green paint, others took out seats and risers, packed in small tables and gilt & green chairs. Symphony season was over, but the 64th Boston Pops season was just beginning...
...long black-and-green Daimler, sporting the British royal crest on its radiator, drew up to a doorway on London's Basil Street one day last week. Out stepped a silver-haired lady in a flowered saucepan hat, to stride regally through the swinging doors. It was the 100th birthday of Harrods, one of the world's great department stores, and 81-year-old Queen Mary, a customer for more than 40 years, thought it a proper time to drop...
Divorced. By Michele Morgan (real name: Simone Roussel), 29, green-eyed French cinemactress (Port of Shadows, Symphonic Pastorale): William Marshall, 31, cinema director, after six years of marriage, one child; in Paris...
...first visit to the United States, he disgusted Washington Irving with his coarse "tavern manners." He shocked Boston with his foppish "velvet waistcoats of vivid green or brilliant crimson" and his lowbred way of breezily combing his long tresses during a dinner given in his honor. At one such function he was asked which of two countrywomen of his was the more beautiful, the Duchess of Sutherland or Mrs. Caroline Norton, and put the whole Eastern seaboard into deep freeze by replying airily: "Well, I don't know. Mrs. Norton is perhaps the more beautiful, but the Duchess...