Word: greys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grey Iron" carries the reader along securely but gives small indication of the vitality and power attributed to him. The voice of the narrator early loses any ring of conviction, and long before the end seems the voice of one who of necessity relates what holds little interest...
Doctors 20 years ago rode in buggies often pulled by old grey mares that were not what they used to be. Since doctors have taken to riding in buggies with a mechanical put-put, they themselves are not what they used to be, declared Dr. Joshua Sweet, Professor of Surgical Research at the University of Pennsylvania, addressing a congress of Railway Surgeons in Manhattan last week. Said...
...circus-camel that had been procured to contribute a big laugh to some approaching initiations. They caused him to serve as a "hurdle," prodded him with sticks, guffawed and jeered at his bewildered antics. Suddenly the camel, goaded by an intolerable incivility, wheeled on the shivering Shriners. His grey lips rolled back. He bit a Shriner fiercely in the shoulder. His ungainly hoof shot forward. He broke a Shriner...
When that aged Pittsburgh viveur, Harry K. Thaw, feeling in his veins the thrill of a new spring, went to Manhattan and began to conduct himself in a manner that ill benefitted his grey hairs (TIME, Sept. 28), the New York Daily Mirror "crusaded" against him, asking, "Why is a rich lunatic a free lunatic?" Some of the Mirror's chicle-masticating readers may have thought it a breach of taste, a blatancy, to make so much of the fact that an old rake wanted to chuck a dancing girl under the chin. Little did these readers know...
...Better known as Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from Dec. 11, 1905 to Dec. 11, 1916. Both days happen to be Mondays, of which Lord Grey says: "... a curious coincidence of date and day of the week...