Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gala sports event, kept transatlantic cables buzzing through the week. ¶In nearby Oberammergau, famed Anton Lang, Christus of the Passion Play, grew excited over radio accounts, went over to Garmisch to see what they were all about. An expert winter sportsman, he watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist Westbrook Pegler arrived from London, reasoned that the miserable showing by the U. S. might be a benefit in disguise. Wrote he: "If the trip had been called off, the firm-jawed, clean...
...game has been sitting in the front row to watch Kan sas teams, which have won four Big Six Conference championships. Last autumn Dr. Forrest C. Allen, University of Kansas' basketball coach, who makes $4,000 to Dr. Naismith's $3,000, promoted the idea of sending grey-haired old Dr. Naismith to Berlin to see the Olympic games next sum mer. Last week colleges which approved the idea added i? to the price of every basketball ticket. For his Berlin trip Inven tor Naismith, it was estimated, got $1,000. In 1891, Dr. Naismith hoped...
Responsible for the details of the tombstone show was grey-haired, convivial Designer Ernest Leland of Manhattan's swank Presbrey-Leland Studios. He is a self-taught draughtsman, whose forebears for generations have been tombstone-makers. Salesmen know that he has embellished more graves than any other single individual in the industry. From his drawing board came one of the most expensive tombs ever erected in the U. S., the $300,000 William Rockefeller Mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. He is responsible for the Back-to-the-Epitaph movement now stirring the industry...
Whence comes this seeming prestige that vainglorious Lowell tower should blaze with incandescent light so many, many nights while Dunster, Adams, and Eliot towers carve but grey and humble silhouettes in the midnight sky? Whence comes the warrant for this lone, flamboyant panoply? Lowell House, is't not enough to curdle the bowels of the earth with the hellish bells...
...with 6.1-in. guns be reduced to 2,000 tons with 5.1-inchers. Up popped the French and Italian delegates. In quick succession they said their governments would have preferred a British proposal to limit capital ships to 27,000 tons with 12-in. guns. For the U. S. grey and graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis repeated the immemorial naval thesis of Washington: only "quantitative limitation" (limitation of whole fleets by global tonnage) is of real use. Such "qualitative limitation" as the British proposed last week he disparaged as inadequate, though he was forced to admit...