Word: greying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lounging in an old grey suit on the train to Florida City he used his press conference: 1) to lay the ghost of "secrecy" still haunting him for his aid to the French in their U. S. plane-buying (see p. 14); 2) to allay any lingering doubts Business might have about his policies. When asked about a new business "appeasement" program about to be popped by Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt asked: what businessmen need appeasing? No new taxes are planned, he said. With the removal of private obstacles to TVA,* he said, no further Government excursions...
...speaker arose in their midst. The veterans' commander-in-chief, Thomas W. Payne, had just concluded the evening's big speech, in which he had waved the flag for ham-handed Representative Dies† and his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities. The unheralded speaker, tall, iron grey, with a noble-Roman nose, announced: "I have seen the Dies committee in action in its hearings. It appears to me that Congressman Dies wants to be Vice President of the United States...
...curious, high-backed, fringed, 50-pound piano stool which is as indispensable to Paderewski's playing as the piano itself. Waiting for him in Manhattan was the private Pullman which will be his home during the next three months. Waiting also was his faithful piano-tuner, grey-haired Boston-born Eldon Joubert, who has accompanied him on all his U. S. tours since...
Today, Paderewski's once-golden, once-silver mane is grey and thinning at the top. But he still sports the oversized, low, soft collars and droopy ties that he wore in the time of Queen Victoria. Watery-eyed and frail, but still erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like...
...John Dewey, the good grey philosopher, has spent his life exploring endless variations on a single theme: experience is the best teacher. Because he hitched William James's pragmatism to Education and insisted that Education must make sense to modern society, John Dewey has exerted a great influence on 20th-century U. S. pedagogy. But he has lived to be 79 and "America's Greatest Philosopher" without ever explaining how Education can make sense when a society does...