Word: greyish
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...Last week one Morris Baron, a greyish little ex-tailor who had been on home relief for three years, rushed into a Manhattan relief depot, screamed: "I want you should buy my wife a dress. Other women get Easter dresses. My wife she wants one. The city should buy her a dress." Thrown out by a policeman, he returned after ten minutes, shrieking: "Down with everything! Home relief, phooie!" Six policemen were summoned to carry him to jail...
...flyers used to wear baggy plus fours of assorted tweeds and gaudy sports sweaters when Germany's air army was really secret. After Hitler became Chancellor they changed to a "grey blue uniform, purely civilian." Last week, like caterpillars bursting out of greyish skins, German air officers sprouted into Reichswehr slate blue, their short Nazi "dirks of honor" lengthening into swords...
...last time University Hall was redecorated, in 1923, the painters ran into a snag. The difficulty arose over the question of what colors should be used in the Faculty Room, but after prolonged and solemn deliberation, a sort of greyish green and light cream was chosen...
...stroll on Bolinas Beach, north of the Golden Gate, one afternoon last fortnight went Alf Harrodon, 33-year-old radio operator. Striding along with head in air he stumbled on something soft. Looking down, he saw a large mass of greyish stuff, mottled and opaque. In his hands it felt and smelled like limburger cheese...
...Michigan has been a faith fully Republican district since 1898 when Joseph Warren ("Old Joe") Fordney, co author of the 1922 Tariff Act, took it away from Ferdinand Brucker, Demo cratic father of Michigan's present Repub lican Governor. Year ago the late Bird J. Vincent, thin, greyish Republican Representative, defeated a big, blond, slow-moving Democrat named Michael J. ("Mike") Hart by 20,000 votes. This year Mr. Hart, a bean jobber of Saginaw who runs an 800-acre farm, was again nominated, this time against Republican Foss O. Eldred of Ionia. Nominee Hart declared Wet, had the support...