Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Paris last week astute Editor Charles Grey of Britain's candid weekly The Aeroplane reported after visiting French aircraft plants: "Every factory in France has for several years past turned into what is called a cellule of some sort of Communist organization about which few people know anything. The head of the factory knows of the cellule in his own factory and he knows who is the Chef de cellule. But he never knows what is the organization to which his Chef de cellule reports or which issues orders to the Chef...
...Press went wild with screaming headlines. From Rapid City, S. Dak., where he received the news, President Roosevelt ordered Secretary of State Hull to "protest." Taking a chance that the monoplane was Spanish, but unable even to guess from which side of the Spanish civil war it came, good grey Mr. Hull announced that "both sides" would be asked to instruct their airmen in "strongest terms" not to do this sort of thing...
...source of royal acrimony is Warwick (Cedric Hardwicke), "a man without conscience and without fear," who becomes the power behind the new throne. He does this by setting his rivals at sword's point until they have obliged him by eliminating each other. Thereupon he marries Lady Jane Grey (Nova Pilbeam) to his son and has her crowned. Nine days later Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's daughter, storms into London with the northern counties at her back and ends upon the scaffold Warwick's cloudy dreaming and the brief, pitiable queenship of his daughter...
Cancer is not inherited but susceptibility to it is. This theory, today almost universally accepted as fact, was announced to a mightily impressed medical world in 1912. Last week the woman who announced it, now grey-haired and granite-faced, left Chicago for her first vacation in 26 years...
...shades began gathering at an uptown pier on the Hudson River. Unmolested by police, the blackamoors shouted, stomped, sang, strummed. By 6 o'clock there were 2,000 of them. Then up rolled a big, blue Rolls-Royce out of which popped a little brown man clad in grey suit, panama hat, white shirt and honey-colored tie in which gleamed a $5 gold piece. "Here comes the Body!" bellowed followers of Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine. The little man boarded one of two excursion boats moored at the pier. "We got the Body!" shouted Negroes hanging over...