Word: marooned
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...Victoria Embankment, 40,000 school children in berets of maroon, green and blue swarm into their places. Peter Suffren, 6, with a row of tin medals on his chest and clutching a bottle of milk, a bag of potato chips, says: "I wish I had a princess for a girl...
...favorite pastime among pirates of the Spanish Main was to set men adrift in small boats or maroon them on desert islands. Caja de Muertos (Coffin) Island, a few miles off the southern shore of Puerto Rico, is supposed to be the original of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, on which, as every schoolboy knows, pirates marooned Ben Gunn. Last week, out of the ocean near Coffin Island came reports of an amazing revival of such piratical practice...
Four years ago two Miltonias, orchids of ancient lineage, were bred together. Last week at the fall flower show of New York's Horticultural Society, the offspring of this union, a small, white, pansy-like orchid with a heart of deep maroon, was christened by John B. Lager, its flower godfather. Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, again denied the rumor which was recently published in the Daily Maroon, the undergraduate publication, that he was being considered for the presidency of Yale University...
...Automotive Color Index. Sent around the world by du Pont to have a look at the color habits of other nations. Colorist Ketcham discovered that Mohammedans will not buy green products because green is their sacred color; that in Japan only the Son of Heaven can have a maroon automobile...