Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confronted by a statement of Sid Luckman, Columbia grid star and prospective chorine, that "out maidens are fairer, we're all fairer," Bobby Green '39 and Cliff Wilson '39 pronounced unanimously, "Raw, Lion...
CALL MY BROTHER BACK-Michael McLaverty-Longmans, Green...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...
...what was perhaps the clumsiest piece of buck-passing ever perpetrated, Police Commissioner Timilty last Friday traced Boston's juvenile delinquency back to the "Dean End Kids." Mr. Timilty's statement, which was made following the daring capture of five 13-year-old members of the Green Hornet Gang, deplored "the harm these pictures are doing to young minds," and ended on a note of despair: "There is nothing the police can do about them...
...When I was in Boston in 1925, I caught pneumonia, and while I was resting, under doctor's orders, Johnny Green, now a popular song writer and then a student at Harvard, used to come with some of his friends and play for me. I wanted to learn how to play the saxophone, but I never got further than the first three notes of 'God Save the King...