Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry F. Byrd, governor of Virginia, telephoned from the capitol at Richmond to Paris for the purpose of telling Julian Green that his novel, The Closed Garden, was great and to invite him to return to Richmond as guest of the Byrds. Novelist Green, Virginia native, does his writing in France...
...which the riotous sophomores of "Rebelliad" notoriety circled in the light of the bonfire. The spread might be said to antedate the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1693. For many a year Harvard graduating classes planted Ivy shoots in the unpropitious soil of the Yard. Dancing on the green was a favorite pastime, and the confetti battle is an indirect by-product of the fighting about the historic tree. Furthermore, the Class of 1838 was the first to invite mothers, sisters, and sweethearts to the celebration, the affair up to that date being hardly favorable for feminine attendance because...
President William Green of the A. F. of L. was the one who advised the porters to postpone their strike "for obvious reasons." He sympathized, hoped they would win ultimately...
Brown, grey, maroon, blue and green bound kodaks perked their lenses through the show windows of Eastman Kodak Co. stores last week. They were vanity kodaks for the "girl graduate and the bride," said the signs. Eastman, by breaking away from black kodaks, has done what the fountain pen makers did five years ago, and the portable typewriter people more recently...
...Lindbergh on purpose. Col. Lindbergh made no comment. Next day, flying Mr. Bixby and another of the singers back to St. Louis, the Lindbergh plane dived, climbed, dived, climbed, dived, all morning. Mr. Bixby is a good air sailor but the other singer, Harry Knight, became "a rich green" with airsickness. Then Col. Lindbergh turned around and said: "Now sing 'Lucky Lindy...