Word: greys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Read a scathing speech delivered by Viscount Grey of Fallodon at a banquet of Asquithian Liberals, in which their total rupture with the Lloyd George Liberal faction (TIME, Oct. 25) was reaffirmed...
Manhattan's Bowery is a slum of light and sweetness compared to London's drab East End. Mist from the Thames and smoke, soot-laden, wrap the long Limehouse streets in a depressing pall of grey. Vice in the East End is as commonplace as elsewhere, though perhaps a bit more furtively unclean. Yet East End squalor has its attractions for aristocrats. Smart Londoners go there occasionally, as do Manhattanites to Harlem's "Black Belt." Blue-blooded Socialists like Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, dabble there in soapbox oratory.* Thither, for an escape from...
George W. Norris, 65, Senator from Nebraska, an old-fashioned man with ruffled grey hair, is the leader of the insurgent, if any Senator can be called such, now that "Old Bob" LaFollette is dead. From the farm Mr. Norris went through teaching and the law to Congress. In 1910 his fame burst like a Nebraskan sunflower when he led the fight in the House that overthrew the dictatorship of Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (TIME, Nov. 22). Since 1913 he has been in the Senate. He admits no Republican or Democratic or third party prejudices; no mind...
FALLODON PAPERS - Viscount Grey -Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Statesman's recreations; with woodcuts...
...Midshipmen Caldwell, Hamilton, Schuber scored twice before the second period was over. Out ran Lighthorse Harry Wilson, Army back, bored to a touchdown; the Navy dropped a punt, the Army scored again, and while guns went off, cornets brayed, airplanes skipped, tanks gamboled, men in blue and men in grey marched and countermarched and the Secretary of War met the Secretary of the Navy in midfield and shook hands politely. The score was 14 to 14. Cagle of the Army finagled through 44 yards for a touchdown. Shapley of the Navy lost his temper but kept enough control to pave...