Word: greying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hugenberg! Hugenberg!" roared dozens of deputies, "Can you answer? Speak!!" But the little man only smiled, stroked his grey Kaiserlike mustache...
Plucked to the Skin. Obeying orders from Moscow, the long grey Soviet armored trains which plunged their fangs into Manchuria last fortnight withdrew to their own frontiers last week. But in the areas they had raked and ravaged Chinese fright and confusion grew from panic to anarchy. Soldiers deserted their colors, looted indiscriminately. Hundreds of refugees who straggled into the larger Manchurian towns and Harbin, the capital, had been robbed of all their possessions by Chinese, not Soviet troops. Some were stark naked, plucked to the skin. As usual, a good many fingers had been cut off by Chinese soldiers...
Through night, another day, and far into the next night, the indomitable Father of Victory lived on. With groping motions he made clear, in his lucid moments, that he wished his hands?the famous Tiger claws, cased day and night in kitten-soft grey gloves?to be held by the two men who were perhaps his closest, dearest, most faithful friends, Albert, his valet, Francois, his chauffeur...
Last act: With his grey paws he drew the hands of Albert and Frangois to his lips and kissed them. It lacked five minutes of midnight then...
...quiet study in the Paris Latin Quarter not far from the grey, ornate pile of the Church of Saint Sulpice, newsgatherers waited last week for Father Jean Verdier, a modest little priest who for years has guided the thoughts and prepared the minds of hundreds of young women preparing to take the veil at the novitiate school of St. Sulpice...