Word: grayness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With no fuss or feathers, Pan American Airways sent one of its new 74-passenger Boeing Clippers across to England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...
Under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund Louis MacNeice, well known English poet, gave a reading of his poems yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. MacNeice holds a position on the University of London faculty...
Louis MacNeice, noted young English poet, will give a reading under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. A. contemporary of several of the younger English writers including W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, MacNeice graduated from Oxford and is now teaching at Bedford College in the University of London...
...first boating now stands: Stroke, Rowe; seven, Stevens; six, Gray; five, Kernan; Four, Fowler; three. Talbot; two, Richards; and bow, Pirnie. The Coxswain is still undecided, as the position is rotated between Fox, Kinoy, shortlidge, and Snow. Kinoy holds the edge as far as weight is concerned, but Shortlidge is perhaps the most experienced...
...breaths of life seemed to wheeze slowly in and out of his lungs. He had aged tremendously. His hands shook, and even when he spoke to the conductor, his voice whispered from a far away corner. It was no wonder that the N.Y., N.H. & H. hostess in her gray and red uniform led him forth from his seat like the Pied Piper with the magic words: "Grill Car in the rear...