Word: greys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This other picture represented the Associated Press-which is a non-profit-making network of news bureaus established in the offices of leading U. S. newspapers, with numerous correspondents abroad-as an organism which, originally sober grey matter, has lately exhibited iridescence, volatility and other sensational characteristics...
...shot." Not until the 1920's did she start writing and her first things won instant recognition, including an O. Henry Memorial mention. A professor-friend describes her: "Well above medium height of her sex; up standing, virile and vivacious. Hair plentiful, rather riotous and red. Eyes greenish-grey. Features large and full of character. The entire woman is instinct with indescribable charm...
More of Amateur Darrow's philosophizings: "Nobody knows whether a black face is any less attractive than a white one. I say white, you know, although there is no such color. We noble Nordics are a sort of ashen-grey hue. . . . The fact that there are so many Negroes who are not colored shows how frequently colored girls have been raped by white men. "I was born where they believed he [a Negro] was better than the whites [at Kinsman, Ohio...
...Zane Grey, author: "My son is only 16 but he is as fine a fisherman as I. Last week as we cruised the South Sea Islands in my yacht Fisherman, he hooked a 640-pound thresher shark.* After a 17-hour battle the fish was landed; it is said to be the largest of its kind ever caught...
Minnie Maddern Fiske, Margaret Anglin, Harrison Grey Fiske, announce a "migratory dramatic institution" whose Broadway appearance will be merely incidental to an itinerary that will include scores of cities. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's farce in which wenching Falstaff involves himself in domestic infelicity and intrigue, will tour 30 weeks. Otis Skinner, "guest star," is to joggle about in the role of the urbane rogue. The plan is to present modern U. S. and European plays on occasion but, for the most part, to produce "classics...