Word: maroon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleven minutes later, a tall, stooped, grey man in a blue suit and maroon tie walked up the driveway, his face grave and drawn. It was Philip Murray, boss of the C.I.O. and head of its lusty United Steelworkers...
...report . . . states nothing new nor original," the Maroon continues. "It lacks the zest, the pioneering spirit so necessary to any revolutionary doctrine. . . At best it simply restates the findings of other universities which for a quarter century have pondered the problems of a general education. . . It's sheer plagiarism from Chicago, Columbia, St. John's, Wisconsin...
Undergraduates were less caustic. The Maroon student weekly, editorially conceeded that "the school along the Charles River still wields a schoolmarm's rod over the thoughts and actions of most American schoolmen" and crowed that "liberal education has unearthed an invaluable bedfellow...
...mother to Paris by her father's starchy family, she returns to New Orleans after her mother's death with her pretty teeth sharpened for revenge. She gets it by the rather oversimple expedient of making a public scandal of herself with a Texas gambler named Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper). But Clio's calculated bitchery proves too much for the simple gamblin' man who wanders in & out of her bedroom like a cow-country Casanova. He checks out for Saratoga, which seems to be full of millionaire suckers. Clio hastily settles her blackmail deal...
...precisely 3 p.m., on Ottawa's Parliament Hill, a sleek maroon phaeton rolled up the curving drive. Several thousand sweltering spectators patted their hands in gentle applause. The car stopped at the great center doorway of the Parliament Building and out stepped Alexander Frederick Augustus William Alfred George Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, and his wife, the Princess Alice. Athlone. for five years the representative in Canada of his nephew George VI, was on his way to perform for the last time the most impressive of a Canadian Governor General's functions-the formal opening of a session...