Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boys and girls of the Music Camp live in cabins on separate lakes, named by the founders Wah-be-ka-ness ("Water Lingers'') and Wah-be-ka-net-ta ("Water Lingers Again") but unanimously called Green Lake and Duck Lake. All wear uniforms of blue corduroy pants or knickers, blue shirts and socks. Uniformed likewise are the faculty (31 this summer), members of competent U. S. orchestras and music schools. Since 1931, NBC has broadcast concerts from the Music Camp's open-air Interlochen Bowl. New this year was a Radio Workshop, whose members wrote scripts...
...York's five boroughs, he proposed to build 58.75 miles of winding, four-lane pedaling parkways, submitted his scheme to the Works Progress Administration for approval. As part of a 30-month park project, WPAsters will lay hard-surfaced paths, make grade crossings, erect highway signs and red-&-green traffic lights...
Thus, the story of Henry Cope. 1803 hero of The Moon Is Feminine, a rich, dilettante bachelor with "quick" green eyes, narrow forehead, "Wertherish smile," is too brightly in the manner of Virginia Woolf to be missed by the dimmest-sighted reader. But Clemence Dane has her own transformer for cutting down Virginia Woolf's voltage to serve more popular tastes: the mood of her legend comes nearer to those melancholy romances which flourished in the 90s-dark young women floating beautifully dead in lily ponds...
Henry Cope grudgingly falls in love with Lady Molly, a statuesque but unaffected blonde who is completely captivated by his secret half-belief in an old family legend that he is descended from the Green People, a species of sea gypsies who live in an underground world called St. Martin's Land. A few days later he meets a tousled, green-eyed boy who gives him an ancient amber cup, tells queer tales, disappears in the sea. As other meetings between them follow, Molly keeps sympathetic pace with Henry's lyric excitement, approves his redecorating his house...
...GREEN WORLDS - Maurice Hindus -Doubleday, Doran...