Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Seas in an identical ceremony. At Hoboken, Polish oldsters presented the Batory with bread (for good luck) and salt (for love). Polish-American moppets romped through traditional Polish rites, brought up spring branches, rye, oats, wheat, fruit and vegetables, danced the mazurka and krakowiak and sang The Green Grove...
Little grove, green in spring...
...explanation of the room's confusion was that it was for "a person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue and mirrors. Venetian Sitting Room mixed a magnificent pair of Venetian doors, a green Aubusson rug and a modern paned mirror. Modern Drawing Room, in grey, yellow and chartreuse, showed the sure-fire de Wolfe method of using fairly simple and expensive pieces of various periods with some modern lighting, square stuffed chairs, more mirrors and light-colored walls...
...darling of effeminate young men, the envy of dowagers, old Lady Mendl claims to have won the title of the World's Best Dressed Woman at a cost of only $15,000 a year. She dyes her hair green, blue or pink and learned how to swim free-style at past 60. Three years ago she swam to shore when a friend's speedboat caught fire off the Riviera. Said she then: "Ten minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives." She made an exception...
Chemist-President Conant, crack researcher in chlorophyll (the green coloring matter of plants), graciously invited his outstanding rival, Chemist Dr. Hans Fischer of the University of Munich. A resounding roll of Nobel Prize winners included three physicists: Arthur Holly Compton (Chicago), Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Werner Heisenberg (Leipzig); three chemists: Friedrich Bergius (Heidelberg), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Cambridge), Theodor Svedberg (Upsala, Sweden...