Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This challenge was drowned in loud Legion cheers for talks on Peace by Newton D. Baker, William Green and Commander Murphy, in loud Legion outcries against radicals. What the Rebels were to the G.A.R., Reds are to the Legion. Adopted with a roar last week were resolutions pledging the Legion to continue its longtime war on Communism, urging the tightening of immigration laws and deportation of radical aliens...
...fiction have made him one of the best-selling novelists in the past six years. Born 59 years ago in Columbia City, Ind., Dr. Douglas entered the field of fiction by "sheer accident in 1929, after having written sermons and essays for 25 years. His first three novels, Green Light (1934), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932), Magnificent Obsession (1929), sold more than 340,000 copies. Similar to those works in its fine moral tone, its unabashed sentimentality, and the neat working out of a plot which brings all characters to happy conclusions, White Banners also carries a plea for forgiveness...
...GREEN MARGINS-E. P. O'Donnell- Houghton Mifflin...
...heavy, repetitious, 499-page regional novel revolving around the dwellers of the Mississippi Delta country south of New Orleans. With a central character named Sister Kalavich, a proud, self-possessed girl who bore an illegitimate son, defied her neighbors, lived alone and achieved a life of harmony with nature, Green Margins contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch Holt, who makes a good living smuggling Chinese into the U. S., Sister is captured...
According to Jerome Green '96, director of the Tercentenary, a pile of pamphlets about four feet high were received in the office on Thursday, September 17, just in the midst of the rush. His office force was immediately put to work to forward the pamphlets to the Cambridge addresses of the delegates and all but about 25 were sent. Since about 25 of the addresses were not known, this number of pamphlets was retained and will be returned to those sending them...