Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend, grey, gentle, diffident, lives with his wife Minnie in Long Beach, has a grown son and daughter close at hand. Happy are they in the faith that Papa's Plan will win national attention when Congress opens. That a groundswell of public sentiment for old age pensions is rising was indicated last week by results of a New York Herald Tribune questionnaire. Of nearly 5,000 U. S. newspaper and farm journal editors who replied, two-thirds reported their communities solidly behind some compulsory government sys tem of old age pensions. Of many another New Deal plank, only minimum...
Elegant in double-breasted blue coat and dove-grey trousers, a gentleman renowned for candor descended on Washington last week to sing anew an old song. Since 1918, when he was Commander of the A. E. F. Air Force, General William ("Billy") Mitchell has been U. S. military aviation's arch-critic. Now, as a witness in the Federal Aviation Commission's investigation, which last week turned mostly to War, Billy Mitchell looked once more upon Army aviation and found it bad. Chief target for his scorn was the Army's performance in carrying airmail. This...
...days later MM. La Chambre and Renouvin met in a dawn-grey field near St. Malo. M. La Chambre, being the insulted one, had chosen the weapons: standard dueling rapiers with bell guards. The referee, famed Fencing Master Phillippe Cattiaux, held out his rapier and the combatants rested the needle points of their shivering blades on it. The referee dropped his rapier. Zing! Clang! M. La Chambre slashed M. Renouvin's blade aside, stuck M. Renouvin decisively in his working arm. A few seconds old, the duel was over. M. La Chambre was no assassin and M. Renouvin...
...corner of the sixth floor, one story above the city room. It is a man's room. Seated in a man's chair, at a man's desk, Mrs. Reid looks singularly small and frail. Tiny she is; frail she is not. Her grey hair is bobbed and waved, and her thin straight lips are carefully rouged, but the wife of the president of the Herald Tribune is anything but pliant. She moves slowly, speaks slowly in a voice which to a stranger sounds disinterested. But when she says in an offhand way "I think it would...
...more sense than to try to make a living at it. While teaching at the University of Denver she learned how to keep bees, owned and managed a profitable Iowa apiary for six years. H. L. Mencken bought her early stories for Smart Set, gave her a good sendoff. Grey-haired, robust, 42, she is married to a fellow lowan named Ferner Nuhn, shuttles back & forth between East & West but still writes about home...