“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”

—  Christopher Morley

John Mistletoe (1931) http://books.google.com/books?id=20pJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22April+prepares+her+green+traffic+light+and+the+world+thinks+Go%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage

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American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet 1890–1957

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