Word: greying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quincy, Mass., there was a sultry, grey sky, a wet mist falling. An elegant lady in white shoes and stockings, in a white flannel coat .and a white felt hat with a white straw brim, with white teeth shining in a broad smile, advanced through the crowd. One white arm held a sheaf of pink roses; the other white arm waved gaily. There in the yards of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Grace Goodhue Coolidge?for it was she?took a full-arm swing and smashed a bottle of sparkling mineral water on a stout steel hull, crying, "I christen thee Northampton...
...elbow, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams in a stiff white collar, holding his white straw hat aloft with a gesture of dignified salutation, watched the new hull slide slowly down to the wet sea. The representative of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee saw nothing?neither the grey hull, the grey mist nor the white apparel. But he, blind Senator Schall of Minnesota (see p. 16), heard the patriotic whistles of the harbor shipping...
...gospel of mechanics and motive power. In the U. S. the Austin Co. has laid out the famed proving grounds of General Motors, built a foundry for Cadillac, put up in record time the Oakland-Pontiac plant. Similarly in Austingrad there will be a proving ground, foundries for grey iron, malleable iron, brass, aluminum, and separate but coordinated shops for every phase of automotive construction-bodies, radiators, wheels, springs. Even the water and sewage systems will be laid by Austin, and the contract price includes a theatre, library, civic centre, fire department, laundry, electric and gas plants, schools, office buildings...
...great political friend of Kansas farmers is slim, grey-haired Senator Arthur Capper. This friendship he cultivates through Capper Publications, including the Topeka Daily Capital, third largest newspaper in Kansas (circulation 42.915)*, and Capper's Weekly, mighty farmpaper (circulation 369,120). Last week The Capital celebrated its 50th anniversary with a monster Golden Jubilee edition containing 164 pages, about 250,000 words...
...American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days for the crossing. As the indom- itable, tired oldster (he is 61) boarded her, his grey pants wrinkled from much conference sitting, his black lisle socks drooping from the legs of his white long-drawers he sighed