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Word: greys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standing 5 ft. 1 in., he looks like a good grey gnome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gnome v. Soldier | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...whacking $503,000), Mr. Lewis is confronted by the fact that President David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, C.I.O.'s best-heeled union, has threatened to walk out unless his attempts to conciliate C.I.O. and A.F.of L. succeed. All this was calculated to put grey streaks in Miner Lewis' big black thatch and to create jubilation in the heart of his onetime colleague, Miner William Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Mr. Green's Inning | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...mysterious, thickly-veiled Woman in Black is driven to the gates by a chauffeur, alights, places a bunch of red roses on Valentino's tomb, dabs daintily at her eyes with a black-bordered handkerchief, departs. Last year there came also an old man with a beard, a grey skull cap and a staff of yellow ribbons, who knelt and prayed, then played The Sheik of Araby on a mouth organ. On the Valentino anniversary last week, photographers swarmed around the Hollywood Cemetery like bees on jam. One Woman in Black was waiting when the gates opened. Two more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woman in Black | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Before two members of the Dies House Committee investigating Un-American Activities who went to investigate in Manhattan last week, appeared a small, excitable Italian in grey shirt and black string tie. Girolamo Valenti's mission is to keep Benito Mussolini out of the U. S. He is chairman of the Italian Anti-Fascist Committee, was editor of La Stampa Libra, now defunct. Mr. Valenti told the investigators a startling story about how Mussolini is roping in U. S. school children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Recruits for Balilla | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...subject of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Last week he mobilized his villagers, his gamekeepers, his servants and his toddling infants, all of whom gave the Nazi salute as Lord Runciman arrived in formal black jacket, wing collar and black bat tie. Herr Henlein turned up in brown tweed coat, grey flannel slacks and white shoes. Present was the German agent known as "Princess Steffi," who generally operates in London. There she has been hostess to Herr Henlein and to Adolf Hitler's personal agent, Captain Wiedemann (TIME, Aug. 1). From the castle windows the conferees could see the Sudeten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Plums for Nazis | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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