Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Play. A warm, cloudless Saturday found the President in sparkling fettle for the weekend's fun. In a light grey suit and soft tan hat he was off from the White House at 8:40 a.m., behind a motorcycle escort. His car companions: Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle, former presidential press secretary Steve Early (now of Pullman Co.), Reconversion Boss John W. Snyder, gabby Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, the President's aide...
...Lively Invalid. Recent Russian propaganda pictures have begun to show the Generalissimo's grey hair. In any event, a redistribution of Stalin's manifold functions may soon be in order. Even the man of steel might want a rest now that the war emergency was past. In Potsdam photographs, his familiar figure looked out of place next to homey President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee...
...impending rule requiring public (i.e., private) schools to accept scholarship children for at least 30% of their enrollments. Even if they returned to their top hats, Westminster boys would have to doff them to Socialist Ministers of the Crown. Meanwhile, they went about London in the shockingly plain grey flannels they had worn in Herefordshire, to which they were evacuated before the blitz. Westminster would never be quite the same...
...hideout, a modest suburban house with a flagstone entryway. In the dimness of a tiny front room sat the hunted old man. There was no mistaking Admiral Suzuki, although he wore a commonplace green uniform with no medals or brass buttons. He was a tall, impressive figure, grey-haired, with a short-clipped mustache and a winning smile. His greeting was cordial, but he looked about him carefully when they entered...
...ready to leave for home with a bulging brief case under his arm. Usually, after dinner with his wife, he works for a few hours. He is in bed by 10 p.m. Two weeks of each month he usually spends in Detroit, hardly stirring out of the grey walls of G.M.'s building there. (He even sleeps in a suite...