Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Field Marshal Montgomery left, the love feast was climaxed by a Kremlin banquet at which Stalin himself kept filling the teetotaling visitor's glass for repeated toasts. Just before the banquet, Monty had been given a caracul cap to replace his famed black beret, and a long grey dress overcoat of a Soviet marshal-reportedly lined with $8,000 worth of sables-to replace the dramatic white sheepskin he had worn to Moscow...
...minutes later, greeted by a standing ovation, Nenni's round, smiling face emerged from behind the carnations. In a grey chalk-stripe suit with a tan shirt and a red silk tie, carefully disarranged to avoid any appearance of bourgeois neatness, he spent two hours and twelve minutes in passionate exhortation. As Nenni's voice rose & fell in practiced intonation, while he raised a warning finger, clenched his right fist, grandly embraced Congress in widespread arms, or modestly spread his long, strong fingers against his chest in a self-effacing gesture, men & women stared seriously and intensely, many...
Enough for All. Now gaunt, grey and ailing, Morgenthau has hired researchers to sift and summarize his giant diary. Last week one of them, Jonathan Grossman, a young (31) history instructor at New York's City College, gave the American Historical Association some revelations from the early years...
...could hardly have chosen better. From his scrubby grey mustache to his trotting gait, Dr. Ivy is as American as baseball...
...made the year's prize wallpaper was from Copenhagen. His winning design was a hand-blocked strip of black & white leaves and flowers on a grey background. Judges also liked a busy strip of his, full of little men running like all get-out (see cuts). Bent Karlby also designs houses to paste his wallpaper up in. During the war he redecorated a Danish resort hotel, from chandeliers to ashtrays. When comfort-loving Nazis took it over, Karlby hurried home to print an underground newspaper in his cellar. The Nazis almost caught him, but he escaped to Sweden...