Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rufus Dawes smokes his pipe right side up. An able public speaker, he dislikes society and ceremony but has had to get used to them in his present job. Tall, long of face and nose, at 65 he is slightly stooped and his grey hair is thinning. His brown eyes twinkle benignly through horn-rimmed pince-nez swung from a black silk ribbon. He picks his suits carefully and well, wears them neatly pressed and with ties more harmonious than Brother Charley...
...broad Boulevard Alameda from the Jockey Club to the Plaza de Armas. Chileans grew round-eyed as they passed, line after line, 10,000 strong, to the music of 24 bands. Most of the units wore blue overalls with overseas caps and belts, country regiments were in khaki or grey. None bore arms, but newspapers learned that the Fascist White Guard had collected $360,000 from its members and spent it on tanks, field guns, rifles, revolvers, trucks, planes and hospital supplies...
...time in Central America "watching revolutions. ' During the War he trained officers at Annapolis. Admiral Standley has had plenty of experience for his new job in handling for two years the Navy's new instruments, its Treaty Cruisers. He is also a gunnery expert. Of medium height, grey-haired Admiral Standley is regarded as "swell" by the elevator boy and telephone operator of his Long Beach, Calif, apartment house. His son & namesake is in charge of the torpedo school at the San Diego naval air station. One of his four daughters married a naval man. New commander...
...press dean is Ervie Ravenbyrne ("Chaperon") of Hearst's American, who weekends with the elect. She and "Dowager" (Helen Young) of Hearst's Herald & Examiner are assisted by able socialite reporters. Martha Granger Blair and Betty Field. New Orleans, The Times-Picayune's Anna Bolton Ellis, grey and gracious, has held her job for 32 years, is nearly as potent in her sphere as Cincinnati's Devereux in hers, assigning party dates and terrifying climbers. From January through Mardi Gras, New Orleans social-writers lead a hectic life, covering the highly organized festivities of their city...
...Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan's big old board chairman, who was not in costume but stayed up to the very end. Upstairs the sedate refreshment room had been transformed into a beer garden with a gambling salon leading off it. Next winter in that refreshment room, grey-haired, flat-faced Emil Katz will go on serving sandwiches and coffee as he has done since the days when his idol, Anton Seidl, was conducting at the Metropolitan. Even with the $300,000 raised, the season will be shorter than it has been for 31 years. It will...