Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Archbishop Leon Tourian. towering, grey-bearded primate of his Church in the Americas. Suddenly a knot of men sprang at him in the aisle. There one of them plunged a butcher knife through brocaded vestments deep into the Archbishop's midriff. The Archbishop groaned, leaned heavily upon his gold crozier, toppled to the floor dead. In horror the congregation milled about the defiled church...
...Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...
...those days the heavy head of hair over Little Stet's square, good-looking face was already turning grey. At college he never touched a drop to drink, never smoked, never used bad language. He became head of the college Y.M.C.A.. and also King of the Imps (noted for their heavy drinking), was rated a "swell guy" and finally was elected president of the Academic department. His inherited drive was already in full swing...
Today tall, iron-grey haired and handsome, George Ranney (along with many a socialite McCormick, Wendell. Morton. Palmer) has an apartment at No. 1260 Astor Street and plays middling and sometimes mildly profane golf with his friend Melvin Traylor of Chicago's First National, of which he is a director and member of the executive committee. But unlike many a Chicago tycoon who got drenched in the downpour of Depression odium, George Ranney has come through with his reputation unaspersed. Last week Mr. Ranney discreetly held his peace while Continental directors waited until the RFC's approval should...
...However rude or crude" they might be, said Professor Gordon, "they were so expressive, so impudently near the truth, that it was hard to resist them a place in any honest lexicon." U. S. eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor...