Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old brother Carl-a big, amiable murderer, who carried a red bandanna and dressed like a hayseed-had been ambushed and killed by a machine-gunner last fall. Of the three brothers who had held Southern Illinois in fief during the noisy years of Prohibition, only Earl, grey-haired and bitter-mouthed, was left...
Rumania's Amazonian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, wearing a New Look dress of white-flowered blue silk, with a grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...
...more reporters popped the question, and were brushed aside. Then a paunchy, scowling ex-sportwriter tried his hand. His own version of what happened next: "... A tall, not unhandsome chap arose, a man of spiritual mien and prematurely grey, arose to declare: 'My name is Westbrook Pegler, Mr. Wallace . . . You have reminded us journalists of the important duty of getting all the available facts. Therefore, I ask you to say whether you did or did not write certain letters...
...with a wispy grey beard, a high thin voice, and a rambling house in Peiping. There he works behind peeling walls that surround a series of tiny gardens, through which ducks and relatives waddle and wander happily all day long. Ch'ih Pai-shih has 30 relatives living with him, and supports 20 more in Hunan. His household includes ten children of his own, the youngest of whom he hopefully calls...
Divorced. George O'Brien, 48. daredevil Western cinemactor and hero of Zane Grey roles; by Marguerite Churchill O'Brien, 37, auburn-haired stage & screen actress; after 15 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...