Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrong. Every park, garden and open space in London and other British cities should immediately be dug up in a system of twisting trenches, he declares. After puting on their gas masks, millions of Londoners should then crouch in these trenches (which would be covered with timbers and green sod to disguise them from the enemy) every time an air raid warning sounds. Meanwhile, 100,000 unemployed British miners would "win the war'' by digging hundreds of miles of tunnels 60 feet below ground...
...music, a copy of TIME'S 15th-anniversary issue (February 28) on microfilm. Three items chosen to show the "Futurian Man" typical prodigies of 20th-century music were: 1) Finlandia by Jean Sibelius; 2) The Stars & Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa; 3) Flat Foot Floogie by Bud Green, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart...
...Britain's most distinguished scientists, William Lawrence Bragg, an authority on electricity and crystallography who became director of the National Physical Laboratories last year. On their grass tennis court he and his handsome, winsome wife play tennis (Professor Bragg usually but not always wins), and on their smooth green lawn the Braggs and their four children have picnic-like teas, weather permitting, every afternoon. Their favorite room is the one in which Queen Adelaide died...
...this year it was Patty's day. While Mrs. Page, green-shy after taking three putts on the very first hole, flubbed around the greens, Patty, wearing trousers, played as though she had her ball mesmerized. In the afternoon round, with her mother nervously watching from the fringe of the crowd, she got seven one-putt greens in 13 holes, avenged last year's defeat on the 31st green...
...Leary me, here we are again--Fearon our hearts and a Green team--I don't Lovett at all ... it's no Mellen to Carey home. I'll Tellar...