Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house where the Brothers Wright lived and worked no longer stands in Dayton. Henry Ford carted it away for his collection of Americana at Dearborn, Mich. But on Dayton's northern outskirts lies a long, lusciously green field named Wright, shaped like an arrowhead, flanked by a long row of hangars and shops and a broad cluster of brick laboratory buildings. This is the heart and brain of the Air Corps, the home base of its Matériel Division, where every item of equipment used, from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested...
Imposing silence on his own colleagues, especially upon Idaho's sonorous constitutionalist, Wild Bill Borah, was Leader McNary's hardest job. Every morning he summoned them all to the green-baize table of his caucus room and made them vow tongue-holding again. "Let the boys across the aisle do the talking," he would say, smiling dreamily as he shot his cuffs. So it was not Borah or California's Johnson or Michigan's expletive Vandenberg who took the headlines in the Court debates. It was Virginia's red-hot Glass, Montana's Wheeler...
...ascribed to foliage of that color. A more favored explanation nowadays is chemical absorption of oxygen in the soil-that is, oxidation or "rusting" of the Martian terrain. But the dark patches on the planet's surface grow heavier and more distinct in winter, change from blue-green in summer to chocolate brown in winter. These changes strongly suggest vegetation. The potent chemical compound called chlorophyll is present in all the green plants of Earth, but spectroscopic analysis of the Martian patches has failed to disclose chlorophyll there. However, chlorophyll is simply the efficient catalyst which terrestrial plants have...
Clews's Jekyll-&-Hyde sculpture falls into two utterly unrelated groups: 1) Rodinesque portrait busts and vitriolic caricatures (of the human race in general or friends in particular), generally in bronze; 2) grotesques-like Jan, King of the Jins of La Napoule-usually in polished red and green porphyry. Always a competent sculptor, he showed to best advantage when he chiseled the monsters of his own imagination...
...Green hats "pour le sport and bravely worn" have long since lost their style. But Michael Arlen, who alters the cut of his books at fashion's wink, still has millinery for a stock in trade. "The hats many women wear, even poor women who ought to know better," remarks Johnnie Cloud, narrator of The Flying Dutchman, "are uniformly ugly and idiotic, which is maybe quite natural since, so it's said, fashions for women are made by homosexuals and Lesbians and they don't like women to look attractive...