Word: greying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Motor horns honked, grey-green soldiers snapped to present arms, and a fleet of eight cars, preceded and followed by bicycle policemen, swept through the streets. To the disappointment of the crowds, the royal procession was quite as informal as the usual public appearances of Herbert Hoover...
...Governor of Vatican City; Prince Massimo, Papal Postmaster General, gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform of a field marshal. From his hat sprouted a white aigrette, round his neck hung the flashing gold chain of the Collar of the Annunziata, on his breast blazed medals. Towering a good head and shoulders above him stood Queen Elena...
...Informal riding clothes. J. Stanley Reeve is always himself immaculate and proper, a perennial figure in grey derby and white spats at horse shows, polo matches. Two years ago some Philadelphia tailors hailed him as "Philadelphia's best-dressed man." Tailors for dapper Edward T. Stotesbury and onetime Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick protested...
...well-filled stables. Girls who can, may board their own horses. With their parents' consent and Miss Charlotte's approval of their horsemanship, they may ride in the foxhunts for which Middleburg is famed. Miss Charlotte, a hale, erect, full-bodied horsewoman in her late 30's with clear grey eyes, fresh complexion and prematurely grey hair, rides with them. Her piebald jumper's name is "War Paint...
...children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered as an example of what would be more suitable, a story about a child named Peter who "ate 'n ate 'n ate spinach and loved and loved to drink his milk every day until he was strong enough to lift his little horse Trott Trott high over his head...