Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Harvard football player is injured, Captain Bobby Green signals the bench, and a large man in a black overcoat comes running onto the field, few of the thousands in the stands realize that the big fellow is Dr. Augusts Thorndike '19, and that he is head surgeon of a marvelously efficient Hygiene Dept. clinic for Crimson athletes, centered in Dillon Field House...
...Thorndike gave out a few pointers about his on-the-field technique. He watches each play closely. "My interest is in seeing whether they get up." It they don't, or if Green signals, he rushes out as quickly as possible. "I tear out," he says simply. He wears the large black coat principally because it has huge pockets in which lots of adhesive tape may be kept. Keeping things from falling out of the pockets makes him run so stiffly. The player injured will usually have a contusion, abrasion, laceration, sprain, strain, or sometimes a fracture or dislocation...
...underlying motif finds expression in the sinister blacks and purples of the costumes "Othello." In distinct contract are the gay and fanciful "Peter Pan" settings. In a few instances the author's vivid imagination carries him to the verge of the surrealistic. The lurid orange drapes and the swirling green backgrounds of his designs for "Salome" harmonize with the voluptuous sensuality of the dramatic action. Perhaps the ultimate in bizarre impressionism, however, appears in Sharpe's fantastic rendition of the "Dope Fiend's Dream." The artist here portrays the weird apparitions of the subconscious, blended together in a terrifying, chaotic...
...Senators and candidates for the Senate last week got a letter from A.F. of L. President William Green. Subject: NLRB's Donald Wakefield Smith. Incumbents were informed that A.F. of L. opposes the reappointment of Mr. Smith to the Labor Board. Candidates were pointedly asked to state their positions on the matter before election day. First to respond was New York's John Lord O'Brian, Republican candidate for the Senate, who promised to vote against Donald Wakefield Smith. Said Candidate O'Brian: "Members of every board exercising discretionary or judicial powers should be wholly unbiased...
...stature. Donald Wakefield Smith is No. 3 on the three-man Board. At the moment he is No. 1 NLRBeast to the A.F. of L. because the Federation does not like the way he reads the Wagner Act. President Roosevelt has reappointed him over the specific objection of William Green, but he must be reconfirmed by the Senate when it meets. (Chairman J. Warren Madden has two years to serve. Member Edwin Seymour Smith, whom the A.F. of L. dislikes most of all, has three years...