Word: maroon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maroon Loaded With Talent...
...tough one, Coach Brock of the Maroon has a wealth of material at his disposal. Although handicapped by the injury of veteran wing Dick Havel and fullback Stan Christman in last week's impressive win over Williams, the men in maroon can boast of threats in Captain Irv Schmid, hard-playing center forward and inside forward Wilbur Eaton...
...first-night audience last week rose reverently to its feet as Toscanini walked briskly on to the stage, faced the 93 Philharmonic players, the 250 Westminster Choir singers, robed in white and maroon, the four soloists. Then sounded music of humanity, solace, peace, triumph: Beethoven's great Missa Solemnis, under the magic Toscanini touch. In later concerts, with the orchestra alone, the First and Second Symphonies emerged in shining clarity and freshness, the Eroica with towering architecture, and blazing spirit. By the time the Beethoven series ends, all nine symphonies, five overtures and the Triple Concerto will have been...
Eleanor Roosevelt bustled from the house, lugging an armful of prints to a maroon convertible; housewives always clutch the breakables on moving day. Newsmen gathered round. Mrs. Roosevelt brushed them away: "No time for interviews...
Eleanor Roosevelt. She cut them off, sharply. The newsmen, fellows who always manage to be called to work on their own moving days, did not understand. They traced the license number on the maroon convertible, noted slyly that it belonged to perennial Youth Leader Joe Lash; they noted that a Navy truck had delivered a trunk...