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Word: greys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father Burns was pale and nervous now, fidgeting with his grey moustache. Without waiting to be asked, he burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CORRUPTION | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Ninth Act. Son and flapper disappear to start life together. Darrell is finally sent away forever. Grey-haired Nina, grey-haired Marsden subside into the painless decay of dreams through which so many live when useful life is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Hebron Academy and Tilton Seminary recently defeated the Red and Grey players by scores of 28-26 and 15-13 respectively. Both contests were lost in the last minute of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 HOOPMEN INVADE EXETER ACADEMY COURT | 2/4/1928 | See Source »

...mysterious prowler slipped out of the darkness and haunted Westmorly Court, sending chills up and down the spines of some of the awakened students as they trembled beneath the sheets, talking unconcernedly with others who were burning the midnight oil, and after a hairbreadth escape vanished in the murky grey dawn with over $100 in cash and over a dozen gold watches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wealth of Westmorly Looted by Mysterious Matutinal Marauder--Victims Quake in Bed as Thief Robs Rooms | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...centuries which makes the contents of these three rooms stand out in the memory of the casual observer, the student lounging there after a Fine Arts examination. That screen on the dais, with its silver gray background and autumn flowers behind a brushwood fence, is echoed in the huge grey globe of Shigaraki pottery. The red camelia of the screen finds a red reflection in the lacquer of the ancient stand below. So too with the insolent macaw by Jakucho as his whiteness is given the emphasis of repetition in the whiteness of the jar beneath him. In short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/28/1928 | See Source »

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