Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation will continue to be handled from Washington by the President." Secretary Swanson's junket was further deflated 48 hours later when the Indianapolis swung around Morro Castle and dropped anchor almost over the spot where the Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor. At sight of the big grey man-o'-war excited Cubans along the waterfront began to shout: "Don't welcome these Americans! They've come to kill us." A white launch put out to the cruiser, carrying an Embassy secretary and the U. S. military attaché. They delivered a letter from Ambassador...
From Manhattan last week sailed Edward Albright of Gallatin, Tenn. to become Minister to Finland. It was the first trip abroad for this small, grey-haired publisher and editor of the Sumner County (Tenn.) weekly News. This appointment was the only one asked of the President by his good friend and fellow Tennesseean, Secretary of State Hull. Declared Minister Albright: "I'll perhaps do a bit of writing for the paper as the folks in Gallatin and all the countryside sort of know me and would like to know what it seems like abroad...
...that little Austria, which has just received official permission to increase its little army from 22,000 to 30,000 men, had last week 40,000 armed men on the Bavarian border. Supplementing the 22,000 regulars, the force is made up of drafts from the gendarmerie and the grey-shirted heimwehr. He did not add that twelve private airplanes contributed chiefly by members of Austria's Fascist Heimwehr organization were patroling the border to shoo back Nazi planes coming over with propaganda pamphlets. He did not add that every Chancellery but one in Europe knew what sword-handy...
...Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodan, 71, Britain's Wartime Foreign Secretary, gravely, of heart disease, in Christen Bank, Northumberland; California's Governor James Rolph Jr., of congestion of the lungs and high fever, in San Francisco; Betty Compton Walker, of colitis, in Evian-les-Bains, France; Actress Tallulah Bankhead, of acute abdominal trouble, in Manhattan; Valerie Marguerite Germonpres von Stroheim, third wife of Film Director Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Nordenwall von Stroheim, of burns about the head and shoulders and seared lungs when a hair-drying machine in a beauty shop ignited, in Hollywood...
Observers who watched a middle-aged Italian in blue bedroom slippers, grey sweater, blue serge suit and grey derby hat get into a big Bellanca monoplane at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, early last Saturday morning, felt that they were witnessing something unusual to the point of eccentricity. General Francesco de Pinedo was taking off alone for Bagdad, 6,300 mi. away. The cockpit of his ship, the Santa Lucia, was a museum of gadgets and curious supplies-eight watches, two colored kites, fishing tackle, a stomach pump to draw liquids from six vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren...