Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aldrich, R. J. Roches, H. H. Caffee, J. J. Carney, J. L. Clark, P. S. Dalton, F. I. Davison, H. D. Everett, P. Finlay, C. L. Flaccus, T. O. Frazier, R. F. Fulton, F. M. Goodwin, J. P. Gray, L. M. Harding, A. L. Hartridge, R. A. Hodges, A. W. Huguley, H. M. Jeone, O. E. Langley, E. H. McGrath, D. G. McLeod, E. L. Millard, V. Munroe, H. B. Nichols, W. K. Page, R. L. Rideont, G. S. Robinson, W. C. Rowe, M. H. Rubin, R. E. Seoger, C. A. Snelling, R. W. Sponaugle, P. M. Sweezy, Taylor...
...Swap generals with us and we'll lick the hell out of you." In this threat, shouted across trenches by boys in Blue to boys in Gray, lies perhaps the greatest tribute to General Robert Edward Lee of Virginia, the soldier who retreated his way to the forefront of military history...
Through the bloody Wilderness campaign, Lee's 70,000 men retreated gradually, slyly. They nipped the flanks, punished the weak spots in Grant's army of 120,000. Always Lee divined Grant's plans; always Grant's losses were heavier. The quiet man in gray who never touched tobacco, rarely tasted liquor and never used a curse-word, persistently outguessed the smoking, drinking, swearing leader from the North. All the next winter Grant was held to the line where he had vowed to "fight it out if it takes all summer...
When he reached the platform in Gray Chapel, on the Campus of Ohio Wesleyan University, all Delaware was massed in the seats. Marching clubs were milling about. The "President-making" Republican Glee Club of Columbus sang the late Mrs. Harding's favorite song, "The End of a Perfect Day." Senator Willis, feeling though not recognizing the start of a cerebral hemorrhage, muttered to his wife that he needed air. He walked across the platform, staggered through the door, fell into the arms of his secretary, Charles A. Jones...
...auctioned off more than a billion dollars worth of real estate during his career," was the hero of the article the newsgatherer subsequently wrote. "Among his fellow passengers were H. E. Mansville of Johns-Mansville, Inc., W. R. Timken of the Timken Roller Bearing Co. and Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...