Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proudly borne between grey-uniformed State troopers, an elaborately colored plaster bust was brought from the New York State Police barracks at Hawthorne, N. Y. last week and propped up before hard-boiled detectives at New York City's police headquarters. As far as police authorities could remember, it was the first time that an attempt had been made to solve a murder by reconstructing the probable appearance of the victim with the aid of a sculptured bust...
...clock the sky was dove grey. The crowd grew impatient, began to yip: "Let's go! Bring him out!" At 5:20 a.m. Bethea, his stomach bulging with chicken, pork chops and watermelon, was pushed through the crowd to the base of the platform. "I don't like to die with my shoes on." he said, sitting down on the bottom step and taking them off. Up the 13 steps to the platform he walked. Then for the first time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead...
...depart and never return if any performance under his baton was sent across the border. Last week while Salzburgers were hearing a familiar, first-rate Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Fidelio and a familiar, even better Toscanini version of Die Meistersinger, cafe talk was all of how the grey little conductor had rehearsed the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to a frazzle in an effort to bring it up to the standard of his New York Philharmonic Symphony. One story was that Toscanini, defying precedent, placed the song contest sequence in the last act of Die Meistersinger to the right...
...royal private car entered Yugoslavia and its regent Prince Paul greeted King Edward who had blossomed into tan shoes, shimmering grey suit, apricot shirt and red tie. Yugoslavian rebel circles announced plans to turn the English King's yachting cruise into a demonstration against the Yugoslavian Regency with organized shouting at every port of "Long Live Democratic Monarchy! Down with Dictatorship Royal or Otherwise! Welcome to King Edward As a Symbol of Our Destiny!" News of any such demonstrations Yugoslavia's iron censorship could be counted on to suppress...
Nearly 1,000 trusts, extant and defunct, will be examined before SEC sends its report to Congress next January with recommendations for regulatory legislation. In charge is Commissioner Robert E. Healy, the grey-haired Vermont Republican who conducted most of the six-year investigation of public utility holding companies for the Federal Trade Commission. His first lieutenant is Paul P. Gourrich, a demon statistician who used to work for Kuhn, Loeb & Co. If his German accent were not so pronounced, Paul Gourrich might have been Commissioner Healy's inquisitor. Asking the questions last week was David Schenker, a bright...