Word: maroon
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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...
Chicago's Daily Maroon, completing a survey of 72 colleges, reported: "The average male undergraduate is badly prepared for his inevitable life in the armed forces of his country." It cited Lieut. General Ben Lear's reply to a Chicago parent who complained that his son, a college graduate, was only a private: "These college-trained young men in most instances have the physical and mental qualities of an officer, but because of lack of military knowledge they must join the greenest recruits...
Discipline on the island was once so harsh that a favorite punishment for incorrigibles was to maroon them without food or water on a shelterless, rat-infested islet. Many men preferred death among the sharks in the water to fighting off the rats for days & nights...
Edna Ferber is more adroit. Her Creole heroine, Clio Dulaine, is not only beautiful, but hard, in the manner of Scarlett O'Hara and other cut-rate Becky Sharps. Clio takes up with Gambler Clint Maroon: "He was magnificent, he was vast, he was beautiful, he was crude, he was rough, he was untamed, he was Texas." He was also a gambler, but Clio soon seduced him into larger ambitions...
...Maroon, meanwhile, has Gary-Coopered his way in & out of Clio's boudoir, various gambling halls, and the offices of J. P. Morgan in New York. He runs a first-class Western-style fight against railroad pirates, during which two locomotives collide in a tunnel. He gets back to Saratoga in time to claim his lady at an effectively staged costume ball, and to promise her that he'll make more money than Van Steed ever dreamed...