Word: greys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ominous, grey shape of the Spanish armored cruiser Principe Alfonso was silhouetted, last week, against the white buildings and brown or reddish towers of Stockholm, famed "Venice of the North...
This year, Tilden, suspended from amateur play for writing signed articles, attended the matches in a grey suit after he had left the vaudeville theatre where he was doing a turn. Henri Cochet was picked to win and would have been even if Tilden had been playing. Nevertheless, the tournament was a series of upsets...
Action thenceforth is rapid, confusingly quick compared with the lagging up to that time. The director seemed as willing as the audience to call a halt. The cinema has been adapted from Zane Grey's piece identically named...
...shoebill heron injured at the Bronx Zoo is one of the most singular of all creatures. Five feet tall, grey, gaunt, spindly-legged, it lives naturally in the White Nile marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the front, stare brightly in side aspect. Queerest is its great bill, which clacks-clacks hollowly when the bird gapes or preens itself. That bill closely resembles a shoe (whence the popular name "shoe-bill") or the head of a whale (hence the scientific name Balaeniceps...
...Story. They were seven; all ages, all colors of hair and temperament, all genetically termed "the Wheater Children." To sort them out, Martin Boyne, bachelor, 46, by chance their fellow traveler, required many whispered conferences with Nurse Scopy of the iron hand and grey cotton glove. This worthy soul scoffed at his belief that Judith Wheater was the baby's mother-no indeed, Judy was a child herself, for all her motherly ways. Baby Chipstone was her own brother, and her parents' chief bone of contention. Then there were the 12-year-old twins-Terry, a wise...