Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the nomination flash came, Topeka drowned out the radio. On the green State House dome, 32 floodlights flashed; whistles, bells and bombs went off and 15,000 Kansans marched on the Executive Mansion...
Adolph Spreckels, grandson of John Diedrich Spreckels, California sugar tycoon, was racing a borrowed outboard motorboat in a regatta on Green Lake, Seattle, when the throttle jammed. Roaring straight into the beach, the tiny craft leaped high as it struck, careened through a crowd of spectators, crashed on top of a sound truck. Sportsman Spreckels was catapulted into the air against a telephone pole where he hung by an arm impaled on one of the climbing spikes. Taken down unconscious, with the arm torn open from shoulder to wrist, he was hospitalized with one of the spectators...
...dedication were Hamilton Holt and Managing Editor John Paschall of the Atlanta Journal, which published her last work. Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Satevepost sent a literary tribute which was read. He also editorialized in last week's Post: "Long may the memory of Corra Harris remain green. Long may pilgrims visit her exquisite little chapel and behold her simple homestead, still open to visitors, set off against the background of stately trees that the owner liked to refer to as her 'cathedral pines.' She was a gifted writer and a good woman, and we wish...
Golden mace aloft, Yale University's Provost Charles Seymour this week marched, between bristling rows of the Connecticut militia, through the leafy streets of New Haven to Yale's round-faced, granite Woolsey Hall. Behind him, in robes of green, brown and scarlet, gravely filed Yale's faculty, bound for the 235th annual commencement exercises of the University. To the families and friends of the graduates in their sombre caps & gowns, the occasion marked some 600 important personal milestones in some 600 young lives...
...GREEN MOUNTAINS TO SIERRAS-Zephine Humphrey-Dutton ($2.50). This record of the transcontinental motor tour of a Vermont painter and his wife makes pleasant reading, except for an occasional lapse into coyness. The Humphreys traveled for the winter on the price of their usual coal supply...