Word: gray
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Died. The Rev. Dr. Clifton Daggett Gray, 73, Baptist theologian and third president (1920-44) of Bates College (which sanctioned undergraduate smoking and dancing, doubled in size and endowment under his administration); of a heart ailment; in Kennebunk, Me. In 1927 he emerged undefeated from a debate with Clarence Darrow on the subject: "What...
...material leaves the unsatisfactorily impression that one has read it somewhere before. And the appearance of the magazine, heretofore so pleasant, has been largely spoiled by the change to a smaller type size. That may be a minor criticism, but the new look makes the pages seem gray and almost formidable...
...event," wrote the late Damon Runyon. "I am not one of those who criticize the curiosity of the gals who storm the doors of the court room. . . . If I had not seen them, I know I would have been consumed with curiosity to peer at Mrs. Snyder and Judd Gray. . . . It is only a slight variation of the same curiosity that makes me eager to see . . . a great baseball player...
Catering to the public love of murder was one of the things which made Hearstling Damon Runyon's name a byword of the '20s and '30s. Trials and Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe...
Singeing in Sing Sing. For the sports-loving, rubbernecking world-at-large, Runyon never failed to raise the curtain with a maximum of gamy drama. "Now the woman and the crumpled little corset-salesman," he choruses in the Snyder-Gray case, "their once piping-hot passion colder than a dead man's toes, begin trying to save their respective skins from the singeing at Sing Sing." "Show us how you struck," the prosecutor orders Judd Gray, and up stands the little salesman, removes his spectacles, and "cocks" the very sash weight with which he bludgeoned his mistress' sleeping...