Word: hues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Napoleon designed the uniform to be worn by members, which consists of "a dark green claw-hammer coat covered with embroidered palm leaves, trousers of the same hue, a cocked hat with green feathers, a court sword...
...that William M. Butler of Boston, second only to Frank W. Stearns as an intimate friend of President Coolidge, has been appointed presidential campaign manager the hue and cry is on. Mr. Coolidge, true to his reputation, has acted the part of the silent, hard-working, deliberate executive forced almost against his will into the maelstrom of pre-convention politics. But when once he has arrived at his decision he has acted with the firmness which is traditionally his greatest claim to fame. He has mentioned Cleveland and the Republican National Committee has bowed to his will. He has mentioned...
...atmosphere and attitude of both book and author can be summed up in one of Caleb's own speeches; and if in literature, as in shipbuilding, there were more thorough, sincere productions of this sort, more shipyard and less "gingerbread an paint", there would likewise be less hue and cry about the decadence of American letters. "Well, 'Glory', ole girl . . . they went an' busted up the shipyard; they went an' filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman...
...backfield is powerful, though its make-up has not yet been definitely determined by Coach Wale. Woodard will surely be at goal while Morey at left fullback will be paired with MacKinnon. The fullbacks will be Burnett and hale at left and center, with Herling, Good-hue, or Boyce at right...
...shortage makes for the same conclusion?that an emergency has arisen rather than that a nation-wide blunder has been committed. Los Angeles is most hard put, proportionately, with 16% of 164,000 pupils unseated. Chicago needs desks for 12% of 400,000. In Manhattan, where the hue and cry clamors loudly enough about the ears of Mayor Hylan to make of him an almost national figure, the deficit is less than 8%. Detroit and Minneapolis are large centers lacking only 3% or so, Cleveland 2%. On the grand average, about one child in ten must join the overflow classes...