Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Devotees of modern literature at Harvard will welcome the generous gift of Mr. Morris Gray to Widener Library as a definite step toward the stimulation of interest in contemporary poetry in the College. Not only will the volumes purchased now and in the future fill a crying need to Widener and make a valuable audition to its shelves, but it is to be hoped the gift will aid in calling attention to the present neglect of contemporary literature by the Department of English...
...troops. His orderly hung the General's field overcoat in front of the house to dry. Along came mule and caisson with two doughboys perched aloft. German booty was in their minds and in their itching fingers, and the forest-green overcoat looked to them like field-gray. They proceeded to hack the embroidered sleeves off the overcoat with trench knives; scalps for their sweethearts at home. A good story would be made out of an encounter with at least a Prussian Oberst! The job was just completed when they were struck dumb with terror by the appearance...
...Shattuck is well-known as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature. He returned last year to membership in the firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden, and Perkins, from which he had resigned in 1920 when he entered the legislature. For four years, Mr. Shattuck was a director of the Harvard Alumni Association. He has served, also, as a member of the council of the Harvard Law School Association, and in 1924 and 1925 he was chairman of the committee for the nomination of Overseers...
...Chesterfield, Walpole, Gray and Cowper", Professor Greenough, Sever...
Henrik Ibsen's .Hedda Gabler is, as her many admirers know, "about twenty-nine . . . a woman of breeding and distinction. Her complexion is pale and opaque-her eyes, steel gray, express a cold unruffled repose. Her hair is an agreeable medium brown, not particularly abundant. She is dressed tastefully in a somewhat loose-fitting morning gown...