Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anyone bold enough to object to her being at the royal table would be quickly disgraced." In shipping $50,000 worth of this year's finest U. S. silver fox pelts to a "royal purchaser" in London last week, the Manhattan fur export firm's owner Julius Green hinted: "Some people take it for granted these silver foxes are a gift to Mrs. Simpson." Meanwhile Mr. Simpson was transferring his clothes from the Simpson flat to the Guards Club in London last week and Mrs. Simpson on October 7 was to move into her new Cumberland Terrace house...
...longer need the followers of the Green bow their heads in shame when the Harvard band marches onto the field with one member banging melodically on his lyre-shaped instrument. No longer can Yale vaunt its silver-toned hope in front of the Hanoverian stands as they bend their heads in shame...
Well calculated to turn Ann Marsters, whose efforts were demonstrated in her "Primer for Harvard students", green with envy and other ailments, is the widely heralded approach of the "Social Register of Harvardmen...
Bernard DeVoto began last month as editor of one of America's least read magazines, the Saturday Review of Literature. The Saturday Review of Literature is the kind of magazine you find on public library tables and under the green-shaded gas lamps of the aged but literate spinsters of Beacon Hill. It is ever so slightly intellectual, and ever so slightly classy...
...first place he can get rid of whimsical Christopher Morley's column "The Bowling Green," which no doubt attracts as many readers as all the other features of the Saturday Review (with the exception of the famed Personals) put together. Morley's column has to be read to be believed, and so long as it stays in it will continue to frighten away any serious and intelligent audience. In the second place he can get competent reviewers (not criticasters like the Benet boys and Bill Phelps and former editor H. S. Canby) to say what they think about books. There...