Word: marooned
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Bitterly righteous was the wrath last week of Editor John P. Barden of the University ot Chicago's Daily Maroon. Accusing the Chicago Tribune of "unethical journalism," of "deliberate misuse of the freedom of the press," of bad taste, folly and falsehood, he said that the "world's greatest newspaper" could not be called a newspaper at all, but only "Colonel Gump McCormick's daily indignation was expression an of opinion...
First came the troops, their uniforms a martial palette. Militiamen in grey & white from the "Old Seventh" Regiment; the jist Infantry in blue & white; the 102nd Engineers in scarlet; the 102nd Medical Unit in maroon; the "Old Sixty-Ninth" in blue with green facings; the "Washington Grays" in grey with flashing sabres. Cheerful CCC workers livened their olive drab uniforms with sprigs of hemlock in their caps. Their banner announced: "We Do Our Part For The NRA; We Work In The Woods...
...gate, astonished Sister Agnes found not the travel-worn automobile in which she always rode, but a spic & span new one. She learned that His Majesty, motoring past the hospital, had noticed her old car, ordered for her a Daimler like his own, in the royal colors of maroon and scarlet...
...almost a yearly chore. He is 49, Irish, restless, athletic, enthusiastic, popular. He is in London as much as he is in the U. S. Though he speaks no foreign languages, he staffs his offices as far as possible with native labor, respects native customs. He knows that a maroon car cannot be sold in Japan because that color is reserved for royalty, that yellow means mourning to the Chinese, that green is bad luck to the Indian. He has a home in Oyster Bay, N. Y. from which he commutes on his sporadic visits in a speed boat...
Colgate's "Red Raiders of Chenango" (because they wear maroon trousers) rattled off their eighth straight game of the season, 16 to 0, against Syracuse...