Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington is a 9 o'clock town. Lights that burn late mean not hilarity, but grim business. Last week significant night lights glowed in the two huge, forbidding grey piles that flank the trim beauty of the White House-the Treasury on the East, the State Department on the West...
...Communist inefficiency. Pravda railed at the Five-Year Plan. What about the trousers, made at Moscow Factory No. 1, with one leg black and the other blue? What about the padlock with keys that didn't fit, the cups with holes in them, the baby dolls with grey hair and crooked legs...
...Every evening Britain recalled Sir Edward Grey's epic lament about the lamps going out all over Europe, never again to be relit in his time. The late August moon rode alone over a darkened city whose street intersections were marked only by thin crosses cut in the black paper masking their traffic lights. Dim blue bulbs picked out busses and subway entrances. Lord Halifax, returning across Downing Street from No. 10 to the Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through...
...modern England. His 45 paintings of Canadian Cavalry, done while he was attached to the Army in France in 1917-18, now hang in the National Gallery of Canada. His painting of the late King George V, riding to a shoot in plus fours and gaiters on his little grey pony, Jock, was commissioned by Queen Mary. On Derby Day, 1925, Munnings became a member of the Royal Academy. In his work, as in his life, he is tweedy and correct...
...butler in My Man Godfrey (1937), this time does it in distaff with a working girl. When rich Mr. Borden (Walter Connolly) is stood up by his wife and family on his birthday, he wanders gloomily into Central Park, finds himself talking about the seals to pretty young Mary Grey (Ginger Rogers). Discovering by accident that Mary makes his enameled wife (Verree Teasdale) pay attention to him for the first time in years, Mr. Borden rightly concludes that her attention will be completely captured if Mary moves into the Borden house. Since the house also contains a highly impressionable pair...