Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-four hours later, President Roosevelt was relaxing as the grey warship sped him on toward Hawaii...
There are only two directions in Hawaii?makai, toward the sea, and mauka, toward the mountains. Last week all Hawaiians were looking makai. Somewhere below the horizon a sleek grey cruiser was slicing its way westward through the long swells of the Pacific. Aboard was the most distinguished visitor to the islands since Explorer-Captain James Cook first stepped ashore 156 years...
...Grey, gangling Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray, by law prevented from succeeding himself, staked his political poke on Tom Anglin, Speaker of the State House of Representatives...
...knows everything and their elders, marveling at his encyclopedic mind, are inclined to agree. Every evening he has spent long hours giving advice on religion, money, careers and love to all young comers. Every morning from 6 to 12 he has heard confessions, given communion. He is tall, grey-fringed, smiling, athletic. His day begins at 4:30 a. m. with a cold shower, includes, summer & winter, an afternoon swim in the campus lake, an evening stroll...
Biggest exhibitor at the Chicago Mart is also the titular head of U. S. furniture companies. Kroehler Manufacturing Co. of Naperville, Ill. claims the distinction of being the world's largest maker of upholstered furniture. Grey-haired, pock-marked Peter who always attends every show in person, was a $27-a-month bookkeeper when he started to work with a lounge company in Naperville. He bought the lounge company, built up a furniture corporation which in 1929 did $20,000,000 worth of business. His customers today include such heavy buyers as Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward...