Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...granite-founded, verdant-wooded Vendee cradled the cub that was to grow into "Tiger" Clemenceau at the Chateau de 1'Aubraie, near Feole. Now on his little four-acre estate, Bels Ebats, in the Vendee, the old "Tiger" waits for Death. The world has been his province, but the Vendee is his home...
...body for a mile and a half from a Westbury funeral parlor to the Sikorsky hangar. Upon the coffin was the now obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran in a voice like "that...
Locust Township lies in a quiet, verdant bowl in the mountains of Columbia County, Pa. Broad farms with prosperous farmer families upon them pattern the land like a soft patchwork quilt. It is ten miles to a town or city...
...dread of too much publicity. The CRIMSON reporter, however, succeeded in gathering that something unusual was likely to transpire in the course of the next 24 hours. It was even rumored that Lampy had some villainous trick up his sleeve and that the flag would be of a verdant...
...more than there is a definite need for one to waste his time watching Cyril Maude and Edna Best, both charming people, struggle with the sententious sentiments of that literary milliner who has so successfully covered the wits of the reading public with his ornate and verdant cloche bonnet...