Word: greys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl of Perth, eleventh Viscount Strathallan, hereditary Thane of Lennox. For all that, Sir Eric has been a secretary to somebody or something, and a good one, for over a quarter century. In 1900 he joined the British Foreign Office and served successively as Confidential Secretary to Sir Edward Grey, Herbert Asquith and Arthur Balfour. From 1912 to 1915 he was one of the Private Secretaries to Premier Asquith. From then on until 1919 he was Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Balfour. Then President Wilson secured his appointment as Secretary General to the League of Nations, and he created...
...cured, said Professor A. S. Loevenhart of the University of Wisconsin. Using tryparsamide (an arsenical drug first compounded by the workers of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research and found to be effective in curing sleeping sickness), he restored to their right minds one-third of all the grey-faced, twitching paresis victims upon whom he experimented...
Because of all the strutting which, by some obscure military convention, West Point cadets are compelled to go through before every football game, a defeat for the Army seems doubly degrading. Columbia, with Pease back in gear, inflicted this humilation upon the grey-coats. Score: Columbia 21, Army...
...PETRE-Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated by G. K. Chesterton)-McBride ($2.50). When the grey little man in the taxi ejaculated "Petrel" and hastily explained he was talking to himself, the cabbie smiled sympathetically. But the clerk at the Hotel Splendide knew better. He completed the name most deferentially-John K. Petre-without being told. And Mrs. Celia Cyril (whoever she was) seemed enchanted with John K. Petre (whoever he was). The two ex-chancellors agreed, the Old Cabinet Minister hemmed affably. So the little grey man guessed he was John K. Petre without doubt, evidently a U. S. millionaire...
Harley Street magnificos availed him naught. Not until he bumped into old Buff Thompson did it come back to him that he was grey little Peter Blagden, "Mr. Peter" to family servants and solicitors. When the real Petre (John Kosciuszko Petre, U.S.A.) spurred an action, all the King's legal horses and men balked valiantly and the episode ended happily for nearly every...