Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dummy administrator, make Colonel Fleming technically subject to this figurehead as well as to her. Chosen for this temporary front job was Wage-Hour's white-maned, competent publicity man, Harold Duane Jacobs, a onetime Scripps-Howard editor who is capable of going to work in a green sports coat with orange stripes, pea-green vest, blue tie, grey shirt and grey flannels...
...Royal Oak, water and fire rose even higher. We saw one waterspout after another followed by a series of huge explosions-white, red and green lights in a fireworks display such as I never had seen before. Pieces of deckwork, masts and smokestacks flew up into the air, giving the impression that the entire ship was blown completely to smithereens...
...week before war broke out, the change was already noticeable. The population (30,552) began trenching the talcum-powder beaches, the little green coves. Reserves of the Bermuda Volunteers were feverishly called up. Bermuda's familiar bicycles were mounted by furiously pedaling couriers in uniform. Letters both incoming and outgoing were rigidly censored (not yet done in Canada). Even women got busy on counterespionage. An innocent German hairdresser who has been on the island for 15 years was eyed with deep suspicion...
George C. Carens of the Transcript: "Good luck to those eight Harvard Sophomore starters and the three 'veterans.' One vote for the Big Green...
Rolly Hill of the Record: "With the absence of Macdonald and Hallett, I think the Big Green will come out victor. The Penn setback more or less took the starch out of Harvard. Final score: about...