Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinn Fein ultra-die-hards such a program is too milky-mild. They hold that "the Irish Free State is not Irish, is not free, and is not a state."? They are still out for cracked crowns and shillalahing upon the green. They will have none of "working from within...
Once, it is told, she painted with her own hands all the furniture in the antechamber of Their Majesties' bedroom a bright and cheerful green. Characteristically, Wilhelm chanced to return, 48 hours before he was expected from the particular little journey which had given the Kaiserin this opportunity to please him. He returned in the night and with a sufficiently bad cold not to notice the smell of fresh paint. Flinging his clothes upon a chair in the anteroom, he donned his night garments, sat down for a moment upon another chair, slipped within the snowy Imperial sheets...
...ancient, closemouthed, companionable enemy, George Duncan. He drove; Duncan followed him. Before they had walked up to their balls the chatter of the gallery informed them that Mitchell's lay some 20 yards beyond Duncan's. They played their second shots; Mitchell put his on the green, Duncan was short. Mitchell took a four...
...been saved; only one worry lingered in the minds of the Kronks. Where was the baby? "He's up there," cried Mrs. Harold Messinger, 75-year-old grandmother of Harold Kronk, great-grandmother of the missing baby, pointing to a window through which the smoke streamed in livid grey-green waves. She broke the restraining grasp of the firemen, of Mr. and Mrs. Kronk, dashed up the cinder-hot stairs, bent over the baby's crib. Smoke made her eyes dazzle. She could see nothing in the crib. Was it possible that the baby had been carried out after...
...relating to decency. No escape was possible. Already burly bluecoats were nudging through the crowd; while the onlookers hooted, mooed, clapped and guffawed, they led him off to jail. For this coin-biter was H. L. Mencken, journalist; by accepting the 50� as payment for a copy of the green-covered magazine, The American Mercury, of which he is the editor, he had broken an edict which barred that magazine from sale in Boston as "indecent...