Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brink of what many an observer thought promised to become a historic industrial war, Industrial Unionist Lewis also moved closer last week to a show-down in his struggle with President William Green & fellow craft unionists of the American Federation of Labor...
...platform stood a huge sign urging "Join Now - No Initiation Fee - One Union for All Workers!" Four green-rib boned wreaths were inscribed: "In Memoriam. The Spirit of 1892 Lives On." Chief speaker was red-faced Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of United Mine Workers and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania...
...tried to buy the Britannia's mainsheet, 70 fathoms long, but souvenir hunters outbid him. Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia's red & green sidelights, and $1,500 by an enthusiastic ex-M. P. for her 18-ft. motor launch in which he proposes to go swankly chugging on the Thames at Richmond...
...summer season in Robin Hood Dell. Because the Philadelphia musicians play on a cooperative basis, never knowing what their salaries will be, Conductor Whiteman donated most of his men's services, asking only expenses and $1,500 for crack Arranger Adolph Deutsch. During rehearsals Whiteman perspired through a green shirt, puffed a long cigar. Violinist Arthur Lipkin, chairman of the Dell concerts, went through an anti-rain ceremony on the strength of his having been made Honorary Medicine Man.& Rainmaker by Navajo Indians during the Philadelphians' national tour (TIME, April 27). It rained...
...Hara, and her picture of the times in which that wild woman struggled, that artistic lapses seem scarcely more consequential than Scarlett's many falls from grace. The daughter of a successful Irish immigrant and a kindly, aristocratic mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty, she was accomplished at taking other girls' beaux away from them, breaking up engagements, winning flattery from men by the time she was 15. She fell in love with shadowy Ashley Wilkes, a cultured, sensitive spirit among the robust...