Word: greying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Lita Grey Chaplin, musicomedy actress, onetime wife of Cineman Charles Spencer Chaplin; and Phil Baker, accordion-playing funnyman; at Milwaukee...
Today the coonskin of Dartmouth takes the place in the Stadium of the blue-grey ranks of the Army. The stiffness of ordered regimentation characteristic of the military gives way to the informal enthusiasm of a college released on one of its biggest holidays. One doesn't have to make an effort to welcome Dartmouth to the Yard; her students are not honored guests who are to be greeted with formality and assiduously introduced to Harvard. Two Colleges as close together as Harvard and Dartmouth don't need an introduction; and with customary Harvard indifference, formalities may be waved aside...
...figure and features were singularly delicate but it was her color that struck me most. ... It seemed a some-what dim white or pale grey. . . . It was not white, but alabastrian, semipellucid, showing an underlying rose colour. . . . in shadow . . . rosy purple to dim blue. The eyes . . . flamelike . . . a tender red. The hair . . . slate . . . sometimes intensely black . . . sometimes white as a noonday cloud...
...southern hemisphere's spring sun was warming Antarctica to almost zero temperature last week. Bands of spectral light bunted the grey ice plateaux with sham festivity. The fringe of sea ice along the continent's frigid hem was softening. Soon four parties of explorers could be poking about the continent...
...Blind enthusiasts for the past can only remind us of that group of grey-bearded New Englanders who, we are told, had gathered about the stove in the little post office at the crossroads, and were bemoaning the regrettable changes and universal degeneration round about them. 'Even Deacon Jones,' added the postmaster, 'isn't the man he used to be.' The approving squire summed it all up when he concluded sadly, 'No, and he never was.' So it is with the college undergraduate. It is true that in many respects...