Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour's exercise all the time, nor a single change of underclothing for over five months. Although I had pneumonia and Stanley West, my companion, was even worse off, we were given only bread and a piece of butter the size of a quarter, and a can of green tea holding about a cupful each day. For that the prison commissioners get $1.50 a day per head...
...brave monarch does not hesitate when a great forest and grain fire is ravaging his realm. Last week Little Tsar Boris sallied forth to Southern Bulgaria, over which hung a wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...
...mistake the man poured in a chemical that stood on the shelf beside the bluing bottle. At first Madame Charlotte's hair looked all right. But when she got back to Premet's and took off her hat she saw to her horror that it had turned green, the color of grass. She rushed back to the coiffeur, in tears begged him to do something for her. He poured more chemicals into more rinse waters, now her hair was blue. Hour after hour he rinsed and struggled; after each attempt the head of hair emerged a new tint...
...disease called rain-tan. Even when it did not rain, there was so much moisture in the air that clothes became soaking wet in ten minutes. More pleasant were the native feasts which lasted from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. A sample menu: crabs, lobsters, centipedes, octopus, green turtle, bonito, albacore, roast pig, chicken, duck, breadfruit, bananas, mummy apples, yams, coconut milk...
Helena Springer Green Raskob is the mother of eleven children, is the wife of a man who made 80 millionaires and who now manages the Brown Derby. She is also a farmer. Several years ago in her native Queen Anne's County, Maryland, she decided to turn two worn-out farms into a paying proposition. Patiently she coaxed the barren soil with flax seed. This season her determination was rewarded by 101 acres of flax, characterized by famed Flax Expert George Lowry, as "the finest flax I ever saw." Neighboring farmers were, in turn, skeptical, respectful, imitative; flax raising...