Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time an echo of the joy is felt in Cambridge. For the voting seniors have taken the edge off the old song, "Don't send my boy to Harvard". Next to the college on the hill, Harvard is chosen closest to the hearts in green. Yale is Dartmouth's keenest rival: the Indians picked Smith as their favorite woman's college. In the choice another significant note is discernible in the balloting, for Dartmouth men may justly claim the virtue of consistency...
...tooth and stoop of shoulder was Actor George Arliss, now 60, foreordained to be a successful Shylock. The bond between William Shakespeare and a host of U. S. schoolteachers was further assurance that Mr. Arliss, after his tours in The Green Goddess and Old English, could take out The Merchant of Venice and get home a happier, wealthier man, which is what he was when he returned to Manhattan last week from a five-month tour that began in Syracuse and ended, via San Francisco, in Newark...
General Plutarco Elias Calles, as usual, would direct his side of the battle from his famed olive-green staff car, an especially built and armored railway carriage containing every implement required by a Generalissimo...
...Pilot, a monthly magazine devoted to the activities of amateur flyers, took the air last week. On shiny paper cut slightly larger than this page, Editor Darwin J. Adams and Managing Editor Franklin Pinkham printed articles and pictures calculated to make as-yet-wingless readers look skyward. Publicist Fitzhugh Green tried to explain why Commander Byrd is in the Antarctic. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, discoursed on woman's status in aviation...
...George M. Pynchon Jr., two of the East's more advanced amateurs. Royal Dixon, imaginative naturalist, exposed the flight methods of eagles, kites, pelicans and buzzards. The tenor of the whole magazine was calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...