Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whither last week's spectacular doings might lead was more than any seasoned labor observer dared hazard. Realists in both camps knew that the original issue -craft v. industrial unionism-was nearly dead, that Bill Green's new issue of de mocracy v. autocracy was stillborn. The big problem remaining was how to reconcile the personal power and ambitions of a handful of potent personalities. But one thing was certain: the will for peace is stronger today in both A. F. of L. and C.I.O. than at any time in the past two years...
...decorative painting its form may be. For the same reason Braque's colors, from the vivid yellow triangle of the tablecloth through the reddish brown of the wickerwork basket, the darker red of the shadow form at the right of the table, the grey-blues and green-blues of the structural background, are an improvement on the colors light would make in an ordinary room. To painters, Braque's stucco-textured colors themselves seemed brilliant inventions...
Barbers who are restrained by professional ethics from shaving their customers with anything more than polite firmness would turn green with envy at the forthright way Mexican goat-shearers shear goats. A goat is taken, brusquely by the scruff of its neck and thrown to the ground. The shearer holds it down with his knee while he clips its belly. Patient old goats who have outgrown their tick-lishness lie still; young goats squirm. The goat's four feet have meanwhile been bunched together and tied. The shearer clips as much of its back as he can reach, flops...
...able to capitalize on its scoring breaks. Playing like babies with a ball through the first theree periods, Captain Powell's men held a 2-2 position in the early minutes of the fourth quarter due to two startling dashes by Jo Johansen. The speedy wing twice outraced the Green fullbacks in the first period, once to tally himself and once to send a scoring pass to Arthur Page...
...picked up its heels. Showing the best stuff they have ever displayed as a group the forward line of Howie Mendel, Arthur Page, Frank Harnden, Tom Motley and Johansen went to town. Mendel opened up the defense with long passes down wind. Harnden repeatedly stole the ball in the Green field to set up plays. Johansen put on added bursts of speed and twice more beat the Green goalie...