Word: marooned
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...Board of Education of New York City last week published two books, one bound in gray paper, the other in maroon boards. On their pages were hundreds of columns of numbers, long and neat. The maroon book was lightened at the end by a few pictures, but here also were numbers...
Brown, grey, maroon, blue and green bound kodaks perked their lenses through the show windows of Eastman Kodak Co. stores last week. They were vanity kodaks for the "girl graduate and the bride," said the signs. Eastman, by breaking away from black kodaks, has done what the fountain pen makers did five years ago, and the portable typewriter people more recently...
...situation that might have been borrowed from a sporting story in a boys' magazine, Miller proved himself the Boy Who Made Good. In his first game, the third of the series, he made many brilliant saves; in the next game he kept the Maroon team without a score. The Rangers, who had won by a single goal, carried Miller off the ice on their heads as, in Manhattan, the baseball fans had carried Cohen...
Twelve thousand people sat around the rink as the players skated out for the deciding game. Big French-Canadians from the east side of Montreal (the French side) were there to cheer the Rangers, disliking the Maroons for beating the Canadians. And in a furious game in which, when the referee disallowed a Montreal goal, the crowd threw overcoats, hats, papers, garbage, and bottles on the ice-in which Miller whirled his arms and legs like the sails of a mill, threw himself backward and forward, stopped every shot except one-a game in which 21 penalties were given, Frank...
Harvard men who visit a new restaurant in Fifty-seventh Street called the Granada Grill are falling on the neck, quite literally, of the rotund black doorman resplendent in new maroon uniform and gold-toothed smile. For it has turned out he is none other than Terry of beloved memory, for nineteen years clerk and general factotum of the Dean's office in Cambridge and famous for his memory of students' names and faces...