Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not see the green fields of Belgium, heavy with heat. Empress Carlotta, widow of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, sees only days of youth. To her the chateau is Mexico's royal palace. Her nurses and doctors are courtiers and gallants. Nearby young Maximilian, her emperor husband, is waiting and will come...
...slide 50 cents under the box office grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar a pain in the portion of his person immediately below...
Reactionary speeches were made by Generals von Krosigk, Count von der Goltz, Baron von Plettenberg, von Pleasen, von Lincker. In the procession of magnificently bedecked guardsmen were several squads of the Reichswehr (National Defense Force) or Green Police, so called from the color of their uniform...
...along have dressed the proceeding with most offensive taste. The strident commercialism of their advertising thrusts the bitter story on every billboard in the country. At the New York opening was included the " dance of the Addicts "; a group of figures writhed and postured under lights of ghastly green, adding a final touch that seemed almost to turn again the turf above a grave...
...observation trains pulled into the New London station after the Yale-Harvard boat race a horde of small boys greeted them nourishing green journals. "Yale Wins" stared in six-inch headlines. Since the race had ended not five minutes before this publication seemed for the moment a journalistic miracle. Closer inspection revealed a badly written story of the vaguest and most general character. No mention of the lengths or time of victory was made. Furthermore, the Harvard crew was credited with the smoother, prettier form-a statement arrant in its stupidity...