Word: greying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circle, with one man in the centre as "It." A heavy medicine ball was thrown around the circle until "It" could touch it. President Hoover has now imported this game into the rear grounds of the White House where at 7 a. m. in a large black sweater and grey flannel trousers he plays it with his friends for half an hour. Bulls-in-the-ring have been : Justice Stone of the Supreme Court, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Newswriter Mark Sullivan, Presidential Physician Boone, Detective Secretary Richey. The playground is sheltered from public gaze by thick shrubbery. President Hoover works...
Spring snow-lay spread over North Dakota's black prairies like thick, grey sauce. It hugged the buttes and ran melting off the gables of crouton-like barns. Hay and wheat farmers around Bismarck, North Dakota's capital*, slouched to their chores. Horses rubbed restlessly against their stalls. Spring was coming to North Dakota...
...small, wiry, grey-haired millionaire drove a leaping spray-plumed power boat up and down Indian Creek in Florida a little more than a week ago at the average speed of 93.123 m. p. h. The achievement broke two world's records: the salt water mark of 80.567 miles, set by the same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend...
...many another. It was a notable company that American Petroleum Institute had assembled in the big director's room that is dominated by Artist Boynton's portrait of A. P. I. Founder, A. C. Bedford. Not for nothing, thought Sir Henri, sprinkling cheese-crumbs, bread crumbs on the grey carpet, had the Isle de France rushed him across the Atlantic and docked him the day before...
...Giuliano did one thing to insure his immortality. Once, while visiting his brother the Pope, he donned a gold hair net, black biretta, grey-green and furry cloak, scarlet vest. In this attire he climbed to an upper chamber of the Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...