Word: greenish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaks in a strong, flat, curiously pleasant voice with the inflections of a polite upbringing in Hartford, Conn. Miss Hepburn did her first acting at Bryn Mawr, where she graduated in 1929, acquired the defect of talking too fast. Among other requisites for a U. S. Garbo, she has greenish eyes, red hair, second-hand car, distaste for socialites, willingness to wear overalls...
...line somewhere. As reported in the New York World, in 1908, a party of detectives detailed to investigate a series of petty robberies in Pittsburgh, saw, early in the morning of July 26, a big black dog sauntering by. "Good morning!" said the dog. "He disappeared in a thin, greenish vapor." Author Fort draws the line at that...
...Chicago. Professor Savage is an active member of the Fine Arts committee of the American Academy in Rome. Almost all recent winners of the Prix de Rome have painted in the manner of Eugene Francis Savage. Finding little in their own time to interest them, "Little Savages" paint greenish, many-muscled nudes in extravagant attitudes before Italianate backgrounds of rolling hills, almond blossoms, firmly white Tuscan oxen...
Millman is at work on a thesis concerned with meteors. He attributed the greenish light of the meteor to a large magnesium content which in a vaporized state brought about by the intense heat of friction combines with atoms of the rarified air to form an incandescent gas cap rushing before the meteor...
...that after noon. Passes to the visitors' galleries were rare as rubies. In the peers' gallery barons, viscounts and belted earls sat in decorously on each other's laps. Edward of Wales, the earnest Duke of York and Prince George peered over the edge of the Royal Gallery. A greenish mortuary light filtered down from the high ecclesiastical windows. It touched Chancellor Chamberlain speaking with one hand on the Budget Box. It raised pale gleams from the immaculate top hat and glittering monocle of his brother, Sir Austen Chamberlain, who nodded solemn agreement from a Tory back bench. That monocle...