Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MARC T. GREEN San Antonio...
...people of Oklahoma, the third youngest State,* are still green in the ways of dignified government. Last week, for the second time in six years, they removed their Governor. This time it was Henry Simpson Johnston, impeached and convicted by the State Legislature for "general incompetence" (TIME, Jan. 28 et ante). Lieut. Gov. William J. Holloway, taking the oath as the new Governor, invoked "the blessings and guidance of Almighty God" to assist him. Citizens of the older States sympathized with his sentiments. The charge of "general incompetence" seemed as much of a commentary on the people...
George Arliss, British actor, complete with dangling monocle, baggy tweeds, traveling tea basket, parrot ("Dink"), and the world's most monumental valet (George Jenner), entrained last week in Manhattan for Hollywood, where he will make for Warner Bros, talking pictures of his two great stage successes, The Green Goddess and Disraeli. Actor Arliss had just completed a five-month transcontinental tour as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (TIME, March...
Easter to the American Indians is the feast of the renascence of Nature. March is the time-when-the-green-lizards-come-out. Indians used to dance an eagle dance, splendid and feathered, imitating an eagle's swirling, pointing to the six points of the Indian compass (north, south, east, west, above, below), praying to Nature to yield tobacco and corn...
Apart from telegraphy, Newcomb Carlton has two hobbies. As the largest employer of boys in the world (15,000 youths in forest green deliver telegrams for Western Union), he is interested in boys. Ship models, his other hobby, overflow his summer home at Wood's Hole, Mass. His only son, Winslow Carlton, is a Senior at Harvard. Since 1914 Mr. Carlton has been President of Western Union. Recently The Daily Princetonian pulled a publicity stunt. It telegraphed many a prominent man asking: If you had only 24 more hours to live, what would you do with the time? Prepaid...