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Word: greyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Muss 'Em Up | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...resident of Nashville, President Hill will soon move to Louisville. His first major task will be to air-condition L. & N. trains.* As for streamlining, he plans to "stand on the sidelines and watch others move." Slight and grey-haired, at 56 President Hill looks less like a major railroad executive than the schoolmaster he once set out to be. A banker on the side, he is married, has two children, will get twice as much ($40,500) in his new job as in his old. Negro Cook Humphrey Bowling of "No. 99," the president's private car, rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Plain Jim | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...choreography and danced the leading roles. For Hear Ye! Hear Ye!, a courtroom parody, she wrote her own scenario, had it approved by her lawyer-husband, Thomas Hart Fisher. Composer Aaron Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet in Chicago | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Score Harvard 45, M.I.T. 12. Goals Boys, Fletcher 3, Gray, Comfort 2, White 5, Lavieties, Ernst, Stepheuson, Kollinites, Demio, O'Brien, Smith, Gay, Garth Foula Grey, Kollinites, Fletcher, Moser, Denton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOOPMEN WIN FROM ENGINEERS, 45-12 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Through the great West Door and up the long aisle of London's vast St. Paul's Cathedral one day last week slowly marched a procession which included a portly little man, young-looking despite his grey locks. To him, at the altar, a cleric said: "I, Sidney Arthur Alexander, senior canon, do induct you, Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, lawfully appointed dean of this church. The Lord keep your coming in and going out, now and forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dean to St. Paul's | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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