Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Death drew nearer, the permanent civil servants of Britain's Foreign Office spoke of "Uncle Arthur" last week as destined to rank in history with Lord Salisbury, Grey of Fallodon and Curzon. To these civil servants, who have seen his League policies of Peace and Disarmament broken one by one and Mr. Henderson himself treated as an interloper at Geneva by his British successors, he was a great Foreign Secretary. When Death came at 8 p. m. on the Sabbath, London's Times said on Monday: "He was the embodiment of the qualities and aspirations of the Labor...
...densely vegetated peaks of Cocos Island rose some 2,000 ft. over his head, while all around the island's steep 13-mile perimeter the Pacific lathered its boiling white waves. Offshore the President could see porpoise sporting glossily. Shark fins cut through the tropical waters like grey scimitars. And a flight of boatswain birds chattered about his head as he laid aside his pith helmet, sat down under a palm tree to share Boston baked beans and brown bread with a parcel of real treasure hunters, to talk of plunder, cities sieged and pirate gold...
...stepped two famed obstetricians, one famed anesthetist. Inside they were met by King-Emperor George V's youngest son George, Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews, Baron Downpatrick, in a fine state of nerves. Upstairs they found Nurse Louise Roberts and Nurse Ethel Smith, a bucktoothed, grey-haired favorite of the Greek royal family who had just taken a "refresher course" at St. Christopher's Nursery Training College. After eleven months of wedlock George's Greece-born wife, Marina, was almost ready to be delivered of a child. On hand were her father, Prince Nicholas...
Dialed in for gold at SEC headquarters, Mr. Haas approached a table on which were five covered boxes. Four contained assorted fruits & vegetables. One contained gold. Holding his indicator in his right hand, the grey-haired oldster moved it along over the line of boxes until it reached a box at which it began to vibrate vigorously. The box was opened. It contained an apple...
...vacated by growing out of the ranks of the young. A more impressive and ambitious volume than Appointment in Samarra, his first novel, Butter field 8 suggests that John O'Hara is well on his way to becoming the voice of the hangover generation that awakened in the grey dawn of 1930. Writing principally of speakeasy, country-club, fairly well-to-do crowds similar to those Fitzgerald wrote about, he presents them as much less tender, much more bitter, much more worried about money, casually frank in their acceptance of the more brutal realities of sexual experiences. And their...