Word: greying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the title "Should the Colleges Educate?" Mr. Gerald W. Johnson in the current Harper's adds a fresh current to the dark grey stream of criticism directed at the colleges. He surveys what he considers the present undergraduate body--a group of carefree young men concerned primarily with extra-curricular activities and the incidental culture which may be acquired thereby, and gives it his blessing. Since he believes the incoming tides of students lack this incidental culture in the background of their homes and schools, it is better for them to learn it at college than to bother themselves...
...return of Hero Charles .A. Levine little resembled that of long-wandering Ulysses. Not alone the faithful watchdog of New York City, Official Handshaker Grover C. Whalen, but everyone else, recognized Hero Levine far in the distance. He was not grey and grizzled. He was only four months and a half older than when he skipped aboard the airplane Columbia at Mitchell Field, L. I., to become a hero. He had no adventures to tell because the press had told them all-how he sat with Hero Clarence Chamberlin in the Columbia until it came down in Germany...
Around littered newspaper offices the news was interesting trade talk, but not startling. Journalists gossiped vividly over the report that Mr. Watson is having his Mirror office painted a gentle grey; has commissioned Joseph Urban, artist, architect, designer of scenery for the Follies, to paint three murals there...
...British Legion gave a luncheon with the Prince of Wales, in double-breasted grey suit, as toastmaster. The Prince talked quietly with Commander Savage and Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton until a red-coated attendant rapped the gavel. Then he lifted his glass to "The King!" made a short speech and raised his glass again "To the President of the United States." Earl Haig, British commander-in-chief in the War, recalled incidents of U. S. gallantry. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill and Mrs. Adaline Wright Macauley spoke for their respective Legion Auxiliaries...
...alone as she stepped through the woods that lay along Hemlock mountain. Finally she came to a little low cottage where she went in and stayed. In the cottage lived Uncle Henry, a severe and matter-of-fact person, with his nephew Joseph. There was also Isaiah, an old grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than twelve dozen jars of jelly. She, Metabel felt...