Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between Manhattan and smoky Queens lies a thin strip of grey land with grey buildings in the middle of the sludgy grey waters of the East River. It used to be called Blackwell's Island. In 1921 its name was changed to Welfare Island. Motorists crossing the Queensboro Bridge span it in daily thousands. Wealthy socialites in their riverfront apartments pay big money to look at it. But Welfare Island is not a nice place to visit and nobody would want to live there. It is the site of the New York County Penitentiary...
...Lewis (stroking his once pink but now grey whiskers): Believe me, the Senator from Illinois finds it no suffering to hear the Senator from Wisconsin...
Leaving historians to decide what if anything was accomplished at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.), grey and graceful Secretary of State Cordell Hull was by last week completing his leisurely journey back to the U. S. In country after country he stopped to eat the ritual chicken and soothe Latin American sensibilities with smiles and goodwill speeches...
...greatest warships in the world is H. M. S. Nelson* which upped anchor in Portsmouth harbor last week and steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud and stuck. On board was the new com mander of Britain's Home Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley ("Ginger") Boyle, K. C. B. Along the deck went he to the control tower, to confer with the Commanding Officer Captain Patrick Macnamara, well known in Washington last year as British naval attach...
...long grey-blue knife gash amid the heathery Highlands of Northern Scotland is Loch Ness. Beside it rears the ruined pile of ancient Castle Urquhart. Nearest town of any size is Inverness, seven miles away. All around is the immemorial home of kelpies, bogles, Warlocks, White Ladies...