Word: hue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reactions. Western senators raised a great hue and cry against the proposed marriage of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, claiming it would eliminate all competition. Chairman-elect McManamy concurred in the general plan "only because I expect economy and efficiency of operation to be promoted by the gigantic systems proposed. . . . We should not, to open the door to lawful consolidations, propose consolidations which are themselves unlawful and that I think we have done...
...Cambridge the Vagabond feels the long departed spirit of youth creeping over him once more. It is the sort of thing that infuses a peculiar warmth throughout his windswept diggings high up in Memorial Tower and makes the fresh log on the hearth glow to a merry Crimson hue...
...sort of commercialism which grew out of the annual touching remembrance to mothers. But the same methods which have been so beneficial to the maintainance of purity of affection in American home life have still another defect when applied to the gridiron. Telegrams are delivered on paper of a hue the mere mention of which in a locker room is enough to make every shower in the place run cold...
...tonight to the Juniors and their guests. No crystalline ballroom splendor, no mirrored nightclub radiance greet there the visitor to Cambridge. Yet Harvard and its traditions are not of the tinsel type; and though the gray University bedecks itself now and then for merrymaking, it cannot forget its real hue. New England solidity, Harvard, the Union, the Dance, all seem to merge for the night; but the parts show through. They are all of the tradition...
...weapon of falsehood" forged by Allied propagandists during the War, and more especially to unmask the more notorious lies spread by "the British official propaganda department at Crewe House under Lord Northcliffe." For good measure and impartiality certain German War lies are also exposed. Most significant, amid present hue and cry against Soviet Russian propaganda, is evidence here cited that 10,500 paid British propagandists were operating throughout...