Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself to write about the execution, he had consulted an account he had written six years ago at the time of the murder. He had found discrepancies. Checking up with police records, he found that dying Lizzie Jaynes had described her murderer as 6 ft. tall, fair haired and grey eyed. Jordon was 5 ft. 65 in., black-haired, brown-eyed. Franklin Roosevelt stopped trolling long enough to radio Washington, stay Thomas Jordon's execution for the sixth time, order the Department of Justice to investigate. Last week, four days before the seventh time set for execution, Franklin Roosevelt...
...Government's financial policy. Over Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's signature a letter appeared in the London Times, and the country devoured it eagerly. Excerpts: "It may be of interest to record that in walking through St. James's Park today I noticed a grey wagtail. . . . Probably the occurrence of this bird in the heart of London has been recorded before, but I have not myself previously noted it in the Park. P.S. . . . I mean a grey wagtail and not a pied...
Epsom. In grey felt topper and morning coat, King George VI soberly entered the Royal Box. Queen Elizabeth, appearing in powder blue, greeted Queen Mary with a kiss on both cheeks. Behind steeped the Dukes & Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, and a set of silk-toppered plainclothesmen. From far & near burst a crescendo of cheers from some 250,000 throats. Thus heralded was George VI's first arrival at Epsom Downs as King, to view the 157-year-old racing classic founded by the 12th Earl of Derby...
...Rome last week grey Richard Aldrich, 73, died of a brain hemorrhage. To hard-bitten compositors on the New York Times his death meant no more scroogy handwriting to labor over reverently. It also meant the passing of an institution. Richard Aldrich was one of the two deans of musical criticism in the U. S. The other dean, Critic William James Henderson, 81, of the New York Sun, wrote a fine tribute to the man who had been for 40 years his friend...
...Grey-haired Charles A, Courtney, master locksmith (TIME, June 18, 1932), back in the U. S. from France where he opened strongboxes containing the Spanish Bourbon jewelry, could make no estimate of the gems' value, only commented: "I do know I made enough out of the trip to buy a $50,000 collection of rare locks and keys. One of them, incidentally, is probably the oldest in the world. It was found in Pompeii and dates back...