Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite irrelevant and incompetent, said Dennis. Had he ever taken out a passport in the name of Eugene Dennis? "Beside the point." How long had he been known as Dennis? "For a great, great many years." What name was he born with? "The color of my hair is grey, the color of my eyes is blue...
...Theater), Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...
Martyrs & Mistresses. Qualunquist deputies of strident Journalist Guglielmo Giannini's party shouted "Amen" and "Hooray." The Socialists cried: "Coercion . . . ecclesiastical oppression." Italy's outstanding Jewish figure, grey-bearded, shambling, 67-year-old Republican Deputy Ugo Della Seta-his whole body trembling with indignation, his-hands wildly clutching the air-shrilled: "Remember those non-Catholics who fought and died . . . who were martyred in the Ardeatine Caves! It is un-Christian to place religious minorities in a status of inferiority...
...express his opposition to the contradictions of a Constitution which proclaimed both religious equality and the preferential position of one faith: "This reminds me of the old man in Florence who had two mistresses, one young and the other old. The man's hair was partly black, partly grey. Each of his mistresses wanted him completely for herself. So the young mistress tore out all his grey hair, while the old one tore out all the black. The poor man's head of course was as bald as this Constitution's promises are empty...
...high thinking." Shunning his parents' wealthy house, FitzGerald rented a small cottage in Suffolk, where he lived for 16 years with a dog, a cat and a parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr or a missionary. His tranquillity is like a pirated copy of the peace...