Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November of last year Kentucky was shocked when one of its most prominent citizens got into serious trouble. Brigadier General Henry H. Denhardt, strapping 60-year-old War veteran distinguished for valor, was co-publisher of the Bowling Green Times-Journal, had been an able lieutenant-governor of the State. Divorced in 1933, he courted a comely widow named Verna Garr Taylor. One night Mrs. Taylor was found shot to death on a dark road, with the general and his automobile nearby. The pistol which had killed her was the general's and the coroner found traces of gunpowder...
...With time to prowl around Shanghai's famed new Municipal Centre on which Chinese have spent $8,000,000 (or 20,000,000 Chinese dollars), correspondents last week found the $225,000 Administration Building gutted as a result of 13 shells efficiently hurled through its green and yellow tiled roof by Japanese warships. Mere smoking debris was the Centre's $90,000 museum and burned was the $1,500,000 Jukong Municipal Wharf completed only a few months...
...gathered for an annual conference, 800 priests and nuns heard a speech by Rev. Francis Peter LeBuffe, S. J., business manager of the able Jesuit weekly America. An expert at making points of dogma crystal clear, Father LeBuffe had a blackboard handy, covered it with white, red, green, yellow chalk marks demonstrating the meaning of the Trinity, Original Sin, Transubstantiation, Incarnation. And then Father LeBuffe went...
Last week many a white guest joined the Star of Bethlehem's black congregation at the unveiling of Mrs. Eastman's Sermon on the Mount and Crucifixion, done in oil on pressed wood. So delighted were they all with the artist's vivid orange, green, lavender, purple, red and yellow figures, pretty Galilean hills and jagged Calvary that a collection for her was taken up forthwith, netting...
...about $750 a week. Most of the rest average $125. Few can now afford to own the cars they drive. Like his brother, racing what he calls a "big iron" the ''little iron" driver is inordinately susceptible to quirks and superstitions. No driver will paint his car green. No driver likes to catch sight of a customer munching peanuts. No driver will let a woman sit in his car. Lost shoes are also a bad omen, since the impact of a crash on a tightly-wedged driver often knocks him out of his shoes. Not so dangerous...