Word: greying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missouri River. In it were records of Pendergast companies and two suicide notes to Schneider relatives. In dust on the bridge railing were two hand marks and a heel print, such as a man might make in climbing over to end it all. Two miles downstream, Schneider's grey hat floated inshore...
...Strawbridge's ten-year-old Coq Bruyere, the two top timber-toppers in the U. S. Blockade, chestnut son of famed Man 0' War, had clipped seven seconds off the course record last year when he won the race in 8 min., 44 sec. Coq Bruyere, a grey, had been beaten only once in six timber races last year...
...along the course with their bases almost on the water. Hardbitten Vladimir Kokkinaki, Brigadier-General of the Russian Air Force, Hero of the Soviet Union, went on instruments. Higher and higher he climbed his red two-motored bomber, of a type used by Russians fighting for Loyalist Spain. Dirty grey mist still dripped dismally off wing and windshield. Nineteen hours out of Moscow, with all the Atlantic behind him, he was tired. But New York City, his destination, was only five hours' flight ahead...
Manhattan's grand, grey Metropolitan Museum used to amuse expatriate Henry James as the "so aspiring" museum of his native city. Nursed by the great fortunes and public pride of Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans and Rockefellers, its aspirations to own ancient and Old World art have been well satisfied in the last half century. Lately the Metropolitan has turned to art at home, and since 1934 has actually bought 73 contemporary U. S. paintings. Last week, with positive enthusiasm, it performed another service...
...addition to the mountain of ballyhoo released about G.B. S's movie debut would be worse than futile, but taking "Pygmalion" alone, and shaving off the fringe of grey whiskers, the finished product is a very engaging and witty comedy. It is too bad that the movie is presented to the public with such a blast of trumpets and publicity, for John Q. gets the impression that it is a picture of world-shaking implications. Certainly there is nothing super-colossal about "Pygmalion," and in that very fact lies its charm. There is plenty of Shavian paradoxical comment on Humanity...