Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owners prepared their dogs, Arnold M. Amundsen, blond, grey-eyed managing director of Missouri's Humane Society, walked into the garage, and with him an agent of the society, Foye Thompson. Three weeks before, Director Amundsen had received an anonymous telephone call, telling him that in this garage a caged cat was daily put before a bulldog to irritate it. Director Amundsen had investigated, learned the date of the dog fight. He and Agent Thompson, under false names, were fraternally received in the garage. The promoters then passed a hat "to heal the winner." About $9 was gathered...
...club sandwich is what it says, waiter. My, that was a pretty piece of femininity stepping down the aisle between the tables. He had not realized how long it was since he'd laid eyes on a beautiful girl. The tailored suit, the soft grey hat covering the source of a wave of yellow curls, were stunning. Oh, too bad, she'd stalked right by and sat down at another table. Well, he'd soon be in New York. Never mind...
...because his home was also his wife's menagerie. When she announced she had trained a chimpanzee to talk, she was invited by Sanka Coffee to have it speak on their We, the People radio program. At the broadcast, female chimpanzee Susan, proud in a man's grey business suit and huge napping basketball shoes, sat by in a chair munching grapes, while Mrs. Lintz told what apes eat, why they beat their chests. Then she turned to Susan, hopefully said: "Who-who? who-who?" Susan looked up from her grapes, said, "Who-who," and went back...
Such widespread publicity, its sponsors hope, will bring additional funds to carry on the good work of the MacDowell Colony. Meanwhile, bustling, grey-haired, bright-faced little Marian Nevins MacDowell continues to lecture, to work incessantly in the Colony's interests. Next summer she hopes to be in Peterboro, as usual, administrating its affairs...
...Abbot, a grey, kind-looking man with a conspicuous mustache, is the secretary (i.e., head) of the Smithsonian Institution, a distinguished authority on the sun, a longtime observer of variations in solar radiation. Dr. Abbot believes that on solar radiation depend temperature and precipitation on earth. He has found in the solar variations a number of periodicities which fit into a 23-year cycle and an even more important cycle of 46 years. Matching the cycles with actual weather records has provided, he declares, partial confirmation. Testifying last week on the Smithsonian's budget needs before a House appropriations...