Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue bus arrived from downtown and a lot of important-looking people got out. You couldn't miss tall, grey Robert Maynard Hutchins in a neat-fitting brown top coat and pearl grey Homburg. The important people mounted the platform and the photographers started taking pictures...
...flowers grow in Sains-en-Gohelle. The town, the houses and the people are grey. The miners who dig coal from the earth seem to bring some of the earth's blackness and dourness with them when they go home from the pit heads. Through this region, in the Pas-de-Calais, the wallowing armies of World War I swayed back & forth in the mud, and all around are historic names: Arras, Lens, Cambrai, Douai, Vimy Ridge. No flowers grow in Sains, but in season they can be picked from the fields and hedgerows outside, and there are usually...
Last week the iron-gated entrances to the mines of Sains were locked. Outside the gates a striker had planted a tricolor flag, which drooped in the grey air. In Sains, as elsewhere in France, men wanted to work; in Sains they could not. In a tavern on the Grande Rue they discussed the extraordinary leader of the town's back-to-work movement: the Abbé Georges Lorent, priest of the local church, also the mayor of Sains-en-Gohelle...
Hanuahvuhd, ch?" chuckled the corner druggist, and the youth in the grey flannels and button-down shirt winced visably. "Too good for the old state...
...eager to entertain her. The posh social life of Paris, the spas and resorts, which Miss West described in loving detail in The Thinking Reed, was first-hand reporting. When in 1937 the British Council sent Miss West to Yugoslavia and she recorded her experience in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, she became indisputably the world's No. 1 woman writer...