Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposed to these loud Occidentals who fill the theatre with the smell of gunpowder are a batch of Orientals who rattle slates, employ green strangling cords, talk occasionally like old Southern gentlemen. Douglass R. Dumbrille, late of The Three Musketeers, is an inimitable O'Neill...
...last Collett attempt to win back the morning's lead. Glenna Collett had taken a brilliant four. Miss Wethered had to sink an 18-foot putt to halve. She putted. For the first twelve feet the ball rolled so fast that it made a white line on the green. Then it slowed, took minutes and minutes. Finally it dropped into the hole in the turf. Miss Collett managed to halve the next hole but on the 17th she lost. Score: 3 up. 1 to go. When Miss Wethered won her last hole, 100 young girls from St. Andrew...
Died. William Durland, 81, oldtime Manhattan riding master, in Manhattan. On his horses had ridden many a U. S. President, many a Vanderbilt, Gould, Belmont, Ryan. In a lawsuit, Mr. Durland was once voluntarily defended by the late Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York and the late Robert Green ("Fighting Bob") Ingersoll, famed agnostic. "When that pair got through talking," said Mr. Durland, "the judge just took it away from the jury and dismissed the complaint...
...Cutting (Manhattan banker), Ernesto Fabbri (Italian-born Morgan partner) and his brother, Egisto Fabbri (shipping), S. B. Eaton (Manhattan lawyer), William H. Meadowcroft (Thomas Edison's confidential secretary), Jose D' Navarro (builder of Manhattan's first elevated railway), J. Hood Wright (Morgan partner) and Norvin Green (President of Western Union Telegraph) became actively interested in Inventor Edison's new project. Many of them were trustees of the first Edison Electric Light...
...Yale's annual Tap Day (senior society elections), held last week, the first man chosen by Scroll & Key was Woodruff R. Tappen, junior varsity stroke oar, tapped by Paul Mellon, son of the Secretary of the Treasury. The seventh man chosen by Skull & Bones was Waldo W. Green, football captain-elect, tapped by George Harris Crile, son of Dr. George W. Crile, famed Cleveland physician whose clinic was last week a scene of catastrophe...