Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rhodes Scholar for three years with A. P. Herbert, editor of Punch, and after his return to America he joined Doubleday, Page, and Co. At this time he also wrote for Philadelphia and New York papers. Journalism later attracted him from publishing, and his column, the "Bowling Green", in the New York Evening Post, was a feature of metropolitan newspapers...
Again to Geneva hurried the tired statesmen who gather periodically 'round a green-topped horseshoe table and become the Council of the League of Nations. Looming, last week, for their consideration were the embroiled affairs of two minor dictators: Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, and Prime Minister Josef Pilsudski, erratic Pole. Status Quo. Marshal Pilsudski insisted, last week in Warsaw, that he had positive knowledge of recent Lithuanian mobilization against Poland. Commenting to flabbergasted reporters, he charged that Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania is a "man whose proper home is an insane asylum . . . absolutely unaccountable for his acts...
...Idea: Foreign sophistication in a U. S. cookbook.* The Motive: To surprise U. S. cooks with the knowledge that a few left-over green peppers may be transformed into either Mexican frijoles or Armenian dolmas. The Story: Mrs. Ruth A. Jeremiah Gottfried has assembled in staccato sentences 128 recipes: "The booty that one casual observer in foreign kitchens found practical to bring home and too tempting to leave behind." Each recipe has a catch-eye head- ing?some with snap. Examples: "Pilaf: An Extinct Soup"; "Carme-leis: Swoons in Cream"; "Silde-boller: Hamburger with Fins." Eyes which have been caught...
...notion, originated by Frenchmen, of colored bedclothes. They are a success. Distinctions of taste have crept into the choice of bed-linen. For small babies, pink or tea-colored sheets are recommended. For men of fashion, blue sheets are most suitable. Red-haired brides may have scarlet or green linen laid upon their couches. For oldsters a black sheet is in the best taste. Now, at Wm. Coulson & Sons, Jas. McCutcheon & Co., Mosse Inc. (in Manhattan), those who so desire may buy sheets in pastel shades as well as more solid colors...
...ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE?Walter Hampden keeping green the memory of Ibsen...