Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of Strauss waltzes and the musical "grand manner." every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's Richard L. Stokes had been the first reporter to check in, and the P-D had consistently run more coverage than any other U.S. paper. He put up cheerfully with sunken tubs with 15 faucets in a panel, the diving bats, the sleek grey rats. (The Overseas News Agency's Robert Gary put one rat out of action with a well-aimed copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) The New York Times's Ray Daniell and radio's nervous Bill Shirer were less patient. They reached the high note of indignation when...
Around his home office, Zinchenko alternates between his London wardrobe and the grey, postmanlike uniform of the Foreign Ministry. He and his pretty wife have attended small parties at A.P. Correspondent Eddy Gilmore's house. There, and at embassy affairs, guests know him as a good conversationalist, a chain smoker, a man who carries his vodka well. But he may drink with a reporter one day, baffle him by ignoring him when in official company the next. Last year he escorted Mrs. Winston Churchill on her Russian tour, impressed her as a nice young...
...share of retirements and deaths, but changes in authors and artists are seldom advertised. Thus Tarzan still carries Edgar Rice Burroughs' bold byline, but has been written and drawn for years by a succession of ghosts. King of the Royal Mounted still bears the name of Zane Grey, whom it has survived by seven years. And although Clare Briggs died in 1930, the New York Herald Tribune could not bring itself to put a new by-line (Arthur Folwell and Ellison Hoover) on his Mr. and Mrs. strip until eight years...
...than two men chivvy him into an alley and work him back & forth like a rockinghorse, one hammering at his solar plexus, the other at his kidneys. And he has hardly got his breath back when he has to watch a huge criminal (Fred Steele) force a small damp grey one (Elisha Cook Jr.) to drink a glass of poison. After that it is only a question of time before the big man has laid out Marlowe with a fistful of small auto parts...