Word: iron-grey
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Nearby stood a man with iron-grey hair and a flower in his buttonhole, Solicitor John G. Carpenter, whose legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90°. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
...dressed, ruddy face, sour externally, pleasant internally, is a banking, realty and lumber tycoon of Atlantic City, N. J. A fine mixer and fixer, he is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends. Much of the practical brains of the Ways & Means Committee (taxes, tariff) repose within his iron-grey head...
...facsimile of Benny Leonard, Sammy Mandell or any other celebrity. He is simply Bobby Murray, a type instead of a borrowed headline. Actor Richard Taber makes the part into a distinct, albeit dull personality. Actor John Meehan does even better, much better, as Peter Murray, iron-grey manager-father...
...iron-grey hair was brushed straight up from his broad, handsome forehead, and his iron-grey beard came to a round point beneath a chin well formed and determined...
Died. Mme. Sidonia Barscy, 59, famed "bearded lady," veteran of countless sideshows and circuses, at Drummond, Okla., mourned by her only son, "Baron" Nicu Barscy, 40, famed midget, who is but 28 inches tall. Mme. Barscy possessed a heavy iron-grey beard some six inches long...