Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maryland Jail. Between the bank of the Choptank River and the village green in leisurely, New Englandish Denton, Md., stands the Caroline County Jail. It is a charming place, accommodating some 25 prisoners, 18 of whom are convicted bootleggers. Last week, Sheriff William F. Jackson made comment: "The fellows the Government sends down here are all right and do not cause me a bit of trouble. ... I believe in treating the boys fairly. . . . They are locked in their cells at night and then I let them out in the jailyard to get air. The boys can fish in the river...
...gasped when they saw the stage. He had audaciously scrapped the usual Greek setting. Costumed in rococo gowns of an early Italian period, the actors scampered over a circular, sloping stage, before a seemingly infinite column of stairs. Draperies hung in a background clustered with stars were melted by green and orange lights into an elfin heaven. Puck, anointing the wrong lovers with his impish love-dew, flew on and off from so many different levels as to leave the impression that there was no such mortal foolishness as the law of gravity...
Armour was a few strokes behind through the early rounds. On the 524 yard 13th on his final round he put a brassie on the green and holed the putt for a 3. This eagle threw him ahead of the field, and as he finished in careful figures, won the title. Leo Diegel and Billy Burke, Greenwich, Conn., broke the course record with 68, five under par. The first Canadian to finish was Andy Kay, Lambton. eleventh...
...this Colonel Green? He is Edward Rowland Robinson Green, 59, only son of the late Hetty Green, undoubtedly the richest and most-talked-about woman in the U. S. in her day or anyone's day. From her, Colonel Green inherited some $175,000,000. He used to be in the railroad business; but now he is retired, devotes most of his time and part of his fortune to a powerful radio station and experimental laboratory on his estate at South Dartmouth. He is glad to have scientists come there to work. As early as 1924, he succeeded in transmitting...
...book contains an emotional foreword by U. S. Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick; and an account of the Lindbergh receptions in Europe and the U. S. (entitled "A Little of What the World Thought of Lindbergh") by Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green of the U. S. Navy, able journalist...