Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shuman National Scholarships to James A. Gray Jr., of Winston-Salem, N. C.; Paul Hallinby Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif.; and Edmund W. Pugh Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif...
...aims, the President's envoy, Myron Charles Taylor, last week changed his plans and flew from Lisbon to London. There he talked with Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant, U.S. Minister to the Allies Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., U.S. Minister to Eire David Gray. He let it be known that he might also go to Eire to confer with President Eamon de Valera...
...removed, lay gravely ill in a Chicago hospital. Evelyn Nesbit, stage beauty over whom Harry K. Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906, turned up in a newspaper ad plugging a face-lifting process. Plugging for fat removal in an ad in the same paper appeared oldtime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray. Los Angeles police who made a raid on an elaborate, white-tie gambling joint discovered that it was the onetime home of Billy Sunday, the late devil-fighting evangelist...
Rather a noble head, white hair and beard, eyes frosty blue, voice alternately brusque or urbane, and he walked always in a silvery gray suit the hue of his cigar ashes. Best seen, he was in the orderly disorder of his speckless, spotless study of a Winter's morning, back to a crackling blaze in the white marble fireplace, drinking strong coffee, smoking a long black cigar and laying down the philological law. "Then," said a devotee, "the old man was sublime...
...heard of his death, that we would no longer see him imperiously crossing Harvard Square, or walking through the Library stacks in search of a reference or smoking interminable cigars in his book-jammed study in Hilliard Street. His white board, his trlin figure in its invariable light gray suit, were apparently permanent features of the Harvard landscape, and to may generations of Harvard undergraduates, who had heard him lecture, and had watched him striding out of his class room, an authority too forbidding to be approached, he seemed the permanent embodiment of learning. He was apparently a Harvard institution...