Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson is favored to bring home the scarlet and gray crew shirts in at least two of tomorrow's contests. The best conditioned and strongest Harvard crew on the Charles this season, the 150's stroked by Bill Malcolm, last year's 150 stroke, are favorites to beat M. I. T.'s three entrants, while the Freshmen are scheduled to take their race with the Tech third heavies. The J. V. race is practically a toss-up with the Engineers possibly having the edge...
...call themselves "glass widows." One wife, out of pique, once locked her husband in his cellar workshop; another sued for divorce and won. Editor Albert Ingalls last week proudly called off some of his pet names: D. T. Broadhead (alias "Jim Fogarty") of Wellsville, N.Y.; William Buchel (alias "Robert Gray") of Toledo; Paul Linde (alias "Pavel Uvaroff") and Fred Person (alias "Alex MacTavish") of Biloxi, Miss. Said Ingalls solemnly: "A good roof-prism maker is the equal in military value of a whole company of soldiers...
...back the two women stopped at an inn. William Gray, an R.A.F. pilot who did not get away at Dunkirk, was hiding there. The proprietor did not want Gray to stay; if he left, the Nazis would capture him. Kitty and Mrs. Shiber secreted him in the luggage compartment of their car, got him into their Paris apartment before they fully realized the risk they had taken, or knew what they would do with Pilot Gray...
Through an official of the Gueules Cassees (literally the "Broken Mouths," an organization of facially disfigured World War I veterans), the two women got Gray off their hands, but not off their minds. They had outwitted the Gestapo, but there were some 10,000 British soldiers who had been left behind at Dunkirk and were living in the woods. Kitty decided to smuggle as many of them as possible back to Britain. Mrs. Shiber decided to help...
This remarkable success emboldened the women to do something which many a reader will doubt, but which Mrs. Shiber insists is literally true. They advertised in Paris-soir: "William Gray (formerly of Dunkirk) is looking for his friends and relatives. Address Cafe Moderne, Rue Rodier, Paris." There were three replies-one obviously from the Gestapo, one too hazardous to follow up, one from a priest who was sheltering four British soldiers, was in touch with hundreds more. In the next four months Kitty and Mrs. Shiber helped almost 200 British soldiers to get out of Occupied France...