Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the high spirits of a pack of campfire girls, the ladies from Washington headed south through the green hills of Virginia last week. "Y'all have a good time," ordered Lyndon B. Johnson as his spouse and nine Cabinet wives left the White House on the First Lady's two-day "Landscapes and Landmarks" tour of the Old Dominion. A late arrival was Muriel Humphrey, wife of the Vice President, who managed to join the silver Trailways bus 40 minutes down the road...
...Harvard's more puritanical regulations prohibited attire other than the traditional Oxford Mixed--black and white. Indeed, Quincy took pleasure in congratulating each successive graduating class on being the best dressed class under his administration. It was inevitable then that Thoreau should wear olive green...
...students (scholars they were called then) wore their sober uniform, not ostentatiously distinctive or capable of arousing democratic envy . . .," reminisced James Lowell, neglecting to mention Thoreau's breach of decorum and, moreover, humbly refraining from revealing that even as Thoreau strode in olive green, he himself, in the class behind Thoreau, was decked out in vests and jackets reflecting the wilder reaches of the visible spectrum...
Thoreau had but this one olive green suit (though surely he should choose some fruit more Acadian to characterize its hue). Receiving the countenance of an understanding faculty, Thoreau took a grim delight in his impunity...
...Coolidge Prize for the two speakers on the Harvard team in Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Tournament to Danny J. Boggs of Eliot House and Bowling Green, and James H. McGrew '65, of Quincy and Denver, Colo. Each will relate approximately...