Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staging does not lag behind the music in effectiveness. There are only three changes of scene, but the varying lights and groupings make all three powerful, especially the few minutes after the picnic, in a heavy, blue-green palmetto jungle, when the exile Crown meets his erst while woman Bess and keeps her until it is too late for her to return to Porgy...
...part of the Harvard eleven, running through the various Crimson plays and passes with some degree of success. The third and fourth teams were on the defensive during most of the scrimmage, but late in the afternoon Bart McDonough, Bill Morton and Bill McCall took turns at directing the Green team, running through plays which the coaches considered rough in spots and needing some improvement. The practice would have continued until after dark had the team managers been able to turn on the flood lights which surround the football field...
...Rima, a bird-girl.* In his famed Green Mansions, Novelist William Henry Hudson invented this tale, described the graceful Rima thus...
...Novelist Hudson's fancy, but a new, strange, bovine character. Her archaic, flat-footed figure, her tremendous and sagging muscles, her heavy Buddhistic countenance roused a deafening discussion. She was called grotesque, horrible. The protests culminated in a student uprising in which the bird-girl was painted green. Londoners today point out with chagrin her quiet nook, declare she "scares the birds away...
...third inning, with two men on, fan famed Hitters Rogers Hornsby and Hack Wilson with a total of seven pitched balls. Every delivery, made with a sidearm motion wide of the box, kept the ball lined against a blind spot, made by some extra bleachers in the green outfield, which Ehmke had noticed in practice. Rallying behind him, the Athletics took enough hits from Chicago Pitcher Charley Root...