Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with authors of bestsellers, turning out communiques of cadenced sentences and well-chosen phrases. Handling world-wide radio broadcasts was heavy, bespectacled, sentimental Georges Duhamel, author of The Pasquier Chronicles (TIME, March 21, 1938). In a small office not far from that of Director Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux sat thin, grey-haired Andre Maurois (Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting as liaison officer between the British Ministry of Economic Warfare and the French Blockade Ministry. Pretty...
Walter Hines Page, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, turned unsmiling to a tall, worn, pale man who leaned against the mantlepiece, Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary. They sat down, like old friends, and Grey, grim chin propped on folded knuckles, talked...
...convoy is imperative!" barked grey-haired Survivor Thomas McCubbin of Montclair, N. J. "Ninety destroyers have just been commissioned ... six billion dollars of United States Navy, and they cannot do this...
...people were too busy to stand in crowds. Women were beginning to run trams and busses as men went to the front (during a blackout two streetcars crashed headon, injuring ten passengers). Women sold newspapers and delivered mail. The Nazi uniform all but disappeared from the streets and field grey took its place. The Army had taken over the country...
From transatlantic planes and ships white faces last week peered out fearfully at grey, rain-lashed waters that already cradled 18 torpedoed ships, some 200 corpses. To escape that fate Britain's proudest ocean queens dressed like drabs in grey. In the second week of World...