Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldest Federal buildings, in a colored district of Washington sits a short, neat, ruddy man of 53 with a flowing black tie and crisp-curling grey hair, a man with the air of a preacher or an actor. He is the best hated man in Washington. He once ruled that a traveling Government official could not tip a redcap more than 25? for two bags. He refused to honor a $15 Navy Department expense account for an official wreath at a State funeral. He once argued for months with a railroad over a 35? claim, and won. He refused...
...there was a horse-of-the-show at Chicago, undoubtedly it was a magnificent old grey mare named Sweetheart on Parade, owned by Mrs. William Roth of San Francisco, and valued at $37,000. For four years Sweetheart on Parade has been prancing off with blue ribbons for five- gaited saddlehorses, until last Sept. 11 at Louisville, Ky. when Mrs. Locke Brown's Bell Lee Rose outpointed her. Again last week Sweetheart on Parade faced such potent mounts as Bell Lee Rose, Roger Selby's stallion King Genius, American Dream, Lady of Lexington. Time and again the judges...
...John Hay Whitney's famed team of dappled grey hunters. Two Leggins, Grey Knight, Bon Diable, which took first, second and third in their class. They will meet hotter competition in Manhattan from the stables of Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, Mrs. John V. Bouvier III and Isaac Clothier Jr. ?ho did not exhibit at Chicago...
Harvard's good, grey President-Emeritus, reminded people that he is now president of the Motion Picture Research Council...
Clad in white-collared grey uniform, Kathleen Knox, 21, socialite grand daughter of the late Philander Chase Knox. onetime Senator from Pennsylvania, Attorney-General in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, Secretary of State under Taft, was found running errands as a page girl in Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co., controlled by Andrew William Mellon. Canny Miss Knox refused to discuss her job, remarked: "I'm interested in learning banking or I wouldn't be here...