Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Coolidge settled back in his old green wicker rocker just before leaving White Pine Camp, and droned along for an hour or more, opening his heart to a curly-headed man with angelic eyes (TIME, Oct. 4); and when the angelic one, Publicist Bruce Barton, discoverer of a Man and of a Book that Nobody Knows, went forth and told The People all the homely facts that the President had revealed about himself, it seemed that nothing but good could come of it to every one. The President was apparently one of the most contented mortals ever heard...
Meeting. A laughing green-clad woman stood upon the Dolphin's deck beside Sir Austen. She was the onetime Ivy Muriel Dundas, his wife - by royal creation a Dame of the British Empire (TIME, Dec. 14). When the purple orchids were handed on board she pinned them bravely upon her green dress. With the orchids came a card: "Benito Mussolini sends his kindest happy greetings to Lady Chamberlain...
...Hosts. In Chicago Harry C. Moirs threw open the doors of his new ten-room bungalow atop the Hotel Morrison, welcomed in for its dedication 300 members of the American Hotelmen's Association who were in Chicago for a three-day convention. Later they re-elected Thomas D. Green (Woodward Hotel, Manhattan) president; chose Fred Bering (Hotel Sherman, Chicago) secretary, Samuel E. Leeds (Atlantic City) treasurer...
...vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like a wanton Ulysses, had left for other shores. In Laguna Vista, California, a delicious world began to unfold itself to Adrienne . . . bronzed turkeys leapt at pungent, low-hanging figs . . . bronzed Mammy chanted of great green forests with scarlet birds and swinging animals . . . enchanted cream-colored people looked down from gilded frames within the house. . . . Why were no bronzed people like Mammy pressed into frames? Adrienne knowns nothing of her parents. For many years her love, fear, and respect centre in Mammy, who seems to know everything. This...
Dartmouth had a hard fight on its hands to subdue a game team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute by 21 to 0. The southerners had a tight defense against forward passes, and the Big Green team found its aerial attack powerless. Straight drives through the line were used almost entirely in the Hanoverian offense, and a strong Virginia forward wall held this offense scoreless during the first and third periods...