Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Federation of Labor has resolved upon a non-partisan position during the campaign, but when President William Green of the A. F. of L. addressed the New York convention last week, he said: "I am convinced that Governor Smith's speech of acceptance and his reference to the abuse of injunctions has made a deep impression, in every industrial state. . . . I am satisfied that, when they go to the polls, they will stand by those who stood by them in their hours of need...
Romance is braided into the plot, not too skillfully. The better moments are those in which reporters are talking about their jobs and their women, or pictured in their drinking or drunken moments. Of the reporters, Hugh O'Connell, who carried the green and flabby reporter's bible across the stage in The Racket does the best drinking while John Cromwell hands in a properly languid sketch of the cheerless, sardonic Wick Snell, who knows his business well enough to have an even more thorough detestation of the activities it reports. There was observed also in the play...
...resumed his stance, swung his iron, lifted the ball toward the green, which was encircled by the gallery. None saw where the ball lighted, save that it plopped somewhere among the spectators. Everyone looked at everyone else. One spectator felt in his pocket, found the ball, in embarrassment dropped it on good ground. Not inexcusably Von Elm lost the hole, but won the match with Dr. (not dental) William Tweddell...
...John Lavery's portraits are distinguished by concentration upon pattern and composition and by a unique green which he uses in his flesh tints. Lavery has painted the British Royal family with notable success; a man of strong and erratic enthusiasms, he last week proposed to portray Prize-fighter Gene Tunney whom he met at a banquet. "He is the favorite of the Gods," exclaimed Sir John, "Someone ... I myself . . . should paint him for the Royal Academy...
...search to discover these facts kept 48 planes busy for two days. The keen eyes of Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, president of the Curtiss Flying Service, were the first to spot the wreckage-an ugly hole in the dark green woods below...