Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nicholson looks rather like a smaller and more delicate Picasso-as does some of his work. He lives with his wife, Sculptor Barbara Hepworth, in a grey, gabled house on the Cornish coast, and does his painting in a small, tidy studio upstairs...
Just the sight of Sawyer in the glittering banquet hall made the N.A.M.s feel better. With his grey hair, rimless spectacles and prim manners he looked exactly like the businessman he once was. When Earl Bunting, N.A.M. chairman, introduced him as "a fellow whose mother probably called him Charlie," Sawyer smilingly set him straight: "My mother called me Charles...
What the girls do like are the sports jackets and grey flannels common to Harvard Square and vicinity...
...inaccuracy in last Monday's CRIMSON editorial. The owl now ravaging the fat and complacent pigeons of the Yard is a barred owl, whose proper Latin name is Strix varia, or if one wishes to be sub-specific, Strix varia varia. Scotiaptex nobulosa is the handle of the great grey owl, a much larger and rarer creature in these parts and a bird which would hardly be likely to be lured into the big city even by the prospect of a Harvard-educated prey. We realize that this nomenclatural lapse is not a matter of any great concern, except...
...come to look for a home and I am accosted by many uncouth persons. They haven't got Brains, any of them, only grey fluff that's flown into their heads by mistake, and they don't think. One even has the audacity to inquire whether I am a female or a male. Don' the silly! Of course...