Word: greys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last of the sages, he Has been called. An old man in a grey dressing-gown and scarlet skullcap, with objects d'art, with his disciples about him, in his home on the Avenue du Bois, Anatole France expressed his opinions on life, people, literature, always with kindly irony, a gentle skepticism. It was thus that the people of France came to think of the author of Thais and The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and The Red Lily and The Rotisserie of Queen Pédauque -a philosopher, an immortal symbol. Now, in the 80th year of his life...
...little farms in Jersey, on fields beside rutted lanes in Delaware where few travelers come, heard, one cool morning last week, a humming and a drumming in the sky, looked up, saw over their heads a great silver shape that flew south as the birds were flying, as the grey geese, the sleek ducks that leave their marshy beds and beat away with the frost at their backs. The Shenandoah it was, which had on that cool morning left its hangar at Lakehurst to start on the longest flight ever attempted by an airship...
...alighted, another skimmer stole swiftly by-then another and another. The next day and the third day, more winged creatures came, swarming down into the field from all parts of the horizon or dropping hawklike out of the high heavens. They were not swallows nor blackbirds nor wild grey geese, these creatures, but flying men in all sorts and conditions of craft, migrating to Dayton's fifth international air meet.* By the opening day the swarm numbered about 350 commercial, military and amateur or "gypsy" fliers. Thousands of groundlings flocked also, for there were to be exhibits to stare...
...West Point classmate, Cadet Trumbull. The Civil War interrupts their incipient idyll. Cadet Trumbull is a Northerner, the Frietchies being, it will be remembered, one of the finer families of slaveholding Frederick, Md. When the times comes for Barbara to say the historic "Shoot if you must this old grey head," her youth and the presence of Trumbull, now a badly wounded Union captain, suggest to her the variation: "Shoot and I'll thank...
Died. Mary McCadden, 93, one-time nurse to Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's famed governor; in Milford, Pa. Governor Pinchot, himself recovering from a minor operation, cut short his convalescence to visit her bedside a Grey Towers, the home of the Pinchots, and of Nurse McCadden. Hearing his voice, she stirred, woke from her coma, cried: "My boy! My boy!" But soon after she yielded to a fatal relapse...