Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-Communism last week won a victory in a place where it least deserved one, a suppurating slum called the Gorbals that sprawls southward from the rat-ridden wharves of Scotland's Glasgow. Most of the Gorbals' massive grey granite houses were built a century ago when thousands of poor laborers began to arrive in Glasgow. Now 85,000 human beings cram its 252 acres. In many of its tenements 30 people share a single doorless toilet, and the odor of garbage hangs heavy in the stairwells. There is an undertaker on every other block. A Gorbals girl...
...Gorgeous George" looked his best in a grey double-breasted suit. At his side stood his handsome, smartly tailored wife Fiorenza (TIME, June 7), who said over & over: "I leave the issues to George." George took good care of the issues. His own man, Frederick G. Gardiner (another Toronto lawyer), was running the platform committee...
...Deal. Some zealous copyreaders even changed the phrase in New Dealers' speeches in praise of the Administration. And when W.R.H. once got mad at Stanford University (it refused to fire a professor he suspected of Communism), and banned its name from his papers, his sport editors went grey trying to fit such substitutes as "Men from Palo Alto" into headlines...
...that it is the worst novel he has ever read. It is, however, the sort of novel a distinguished Supreme Court Justice might write. It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages...
...hero, Ralph ("Dash") Inman, 24, and a captain from the age of 19, is grey and tense when the book opens because he has lost a ship. The Running of the Tide is the story of his triumphant vindication in command of another ship (the fastest in the world) on a three-year voyage to Batavia and Japan, salting away more than $100,000 a year...