Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty years ago Mother Advocate found before her the "pleasant though unexpected task--one, however, none the less pleasant from its unexpectedness--of welcoming to the green fields and pastures new of college literature another aspirant for favor," and it was a very courteous greeting that she extended to the young "Magenta." If the child is father to the man the two are often strangely dissimilar. . . . But if the present paper and its editors inherit few features or characteristics from 1873 they do inherit--at least on such formal occasions as birthdays--the excellent good will of Mother Advocate...
...seven straight victories since the Southern trip, defeating Columbia, Maine, Springfield College, the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Yale, Norwich, and Pennsylvania. In the last contest, which was played on Thursday, Dunlevy held his opponents to nine scattered hits. Huntzinger, on the mound for Pennsylvania, did even better, holding the Green to four, but the latter's ability to come through in the pinches, coupled with four infield errors by Pennsylvania, gave Dartmouth a 4 to 2 victory...
...jail in foreign parts, Jim Larkin, Irish Revolutionist recently deported from the United States, arrived in his native Dublin. He was greeted with cheers by many thousands of Irish workers and marched through the streets to make a speech at Liberty Hall, with two bands playing and red and green flags waving...
Anna Katherine Green...
Forty-five years ago Anna Katherine Green published The Leavenworth Case. That mystery story still sells. In 1923 she publishes The Step on the Stair in which love and romance vie for place with crime and mystery. Critics have said that this novel, written when she has passed her seventy-fifth birthday is one of her best, that it returns to the manner and method of The Leavenworth Case, was better than The Filigree Ball or The House of the Whispering Pines. At any rate, soon after publication, it was found on the best-seller lists...