Word: greying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Called upon to speak, Mr. Bingham arose and, with a glint in his grey eye, said: "I am, I believe, the only American representative of government who has ever refused to enter the doors of the Army & Navy Club in Manila...
When Governor General Earl Grey appointed Mr. Dessaulles to the Senate in 1907 the centenarian was 79 years old. Loud & long were the protests that he was "too" old." Even some of the Senators complained to Premier Sir Wilfred Laurier. But the wily French Canadian statesman smiled and said: "He will be here when most of you are gone." And, when Senator Dessaulles looks around the Senate at his slightly less hoary colleagues, he must admit that the prophecy has been fulfilled...
...technicalities that occasionally snorted into colorful blasphemy, the whiskered "stool pigeon of King George" tilted far back in his swivel chair, read the Chicago Tribune comic strip about Andrew Gump, Minerva Gump, etc., etc. Above the edge of the newspaper, courtroom idlers could see Mr. McAndrew's iron grey hair. Occasionally he put the newspaper down and chuckled. Then the idlers noted his white whiskers well tinged with red, his high color, his eyebrows that laid a direct black line across his forehead...
Married. Lady Jane Grey, descendant and namesake of the tragic 10-day Queen of England; (beheaded February 8, 1587 in the Tower of London upon the order of her successor, Queen Mary) to the Reverend P. H. Turnbull, Anglican clergyman; in the chapel of Westminster Abbey founded by King Henry VIII, great-grandfather of the first lady Jane Grey...
GALLIONS REACH-H. M. Tomlinson-Harper ($2.50). After he killed a man on board a boat at "Gallions Reach," part of the grey, quiet Thames that breathes near the uproarious alleys of Limehouse, Colet was pursued by a ghost. Through shipwreck, riding the hot ocean in a tiny open boat, even in the green griddle of the jungle, there was always a hand upon his shoulder, a voice in his ear. Finally he obeyed the whispered command and sailed home, to "Gallions Reach." The lands and water over which Colet is driven by a sprinting remembrance are faintly reminiscent...