Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safe 50-40, Taft's injunction-seizure amendment won. A.F.L.'s old William Green sent Scott Lucas an angry letter telling him to fight no longer to make "the Taft bill more palatable" since it was already "absolutely unacceptable." This, said Taft, was "probably the most presumptuous statement that any individual has ever made to the Senate...
...Utah's stolid, scholarly Elbert Thomas, noting sadly that only the first two lines of his bill were left when Taft got through, disowned the whole business. At his suggestion the bill was renamed the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1949, but, as old Bill Green had indicated, it would be known familiarly as the Taft bill...
...London luncheon in her honor, Marlene Dietrich forgot that one does not smoke in a formal dining room until the King has been toasted. Between courses, she puffed on a green cigarette holder while the traditional uniformed toastmaster stared in horror. When he could stand it no longer, he banged his gavel close to Marlene's fingers, called for the toast, then roared pointedly: "Ladies & Gentlemen, you may now smoke!" Marlene spluttered, reddened, hid her head and finally apologized...
...moments, he listened idly to a rain crow's mourning call, and squinted at his herd of Jersey cows browsing on the green pastures. At 60 seconds past 6 a.m., preceded by eight bars of Dixie and a short commercial, Farm Editor Cope leaned toward a porch microphone and ad-libbed: "I never saw a prettier day . . ." By the. time his chatty half-hour broadcast was over, Cope had worked up an appetite for a heaping platter of fried eggs, sausages and hot biscuits, washed down by more coffee and bourbon. Then he settled down to write his daily...
...quite a bathtub, replied RFC Director Harvey J. Gunderson. The first blue and yellow Lustron houses were "a little like hotdog stands." But the newer grey and green houses, he thought, were a great improvement...