Word: spruced
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Inside the shop, on shelves as green and spruce as a housewife's kitchen cabinet, gleamed all sorts of whiskies, gins, ports, sherries, liqueurs-some labeled "non-alcoholic," others with standard booze labels -all offered by the genial clerk with gusto...
...would quickly drop when he looked about the chamber to recognize a host of old friends and comrades-in-arms. The first to make him welcome would naturally be Alexander Hamilton Stephens from Georgia, his colleague in the House, his Vice President in the Confederacy. General Lee, trim and spruce as he was in life, would have a courteous greeting for his commander-in-chief...
...right hand of His Majesty sat the new Prime Minister of France, spruce, go-getting André Pierre Gabriel Amédee Tardieu, and next to him the shaggy, great old man who started the idea of the Briand-Kellogg peace pact, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, dozing with a deceptive air of inattention next to Minister of Marine Georges Leygues...