Word: greying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceeded to the home of a Methodist Episcopal minister named Kenneth M. Engle. In the presence of his wife and a high-school principal named Cate, who later defined their behavior as "lovey-dovey," Mr. Engle made Clark Gable and Carole Lombard man & wife. Gable wore blue, Lombard grey...
...more territory Adolf Hitler takes, the more his financial ministers have to worry about. Last week they announced a desperate "New Financial Plan" which illustrates why German economists have grey hair...
...much. But while other postmen with the same problem met it by foot baths or retirement, Mailman Smith used his head. Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post. Footsore grey-coats throughout the land watched his progress, hoped that it spelled an end to bunions and broken arches...
...Grim, grey-haired Dr. Bessie R. Burchett, a high-school Latin teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils...
...Dartmouth's grey, veteran Track Coach Harry Hillman, onetime Olympic runner, the result has since been more headache than help. Year after year on the springy spruce track, his athletes stepped off more remarkable times in practice, were beaten in unremarkable time in competition elsewhere. Last March, to find out just how much faster Dartmouth's track was than those in other sports arenas, he invited the great Glenn Cunningham to race over it. No official world record could be hung up, because the International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes only outdoor performances. Cunningham amazed everybody with...