Word: iron-grey
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...Democratic county convention in Dies's home county had officially denounced its Congressman as a "demagogue" three days before he quit. Even more important, Dies for the first time had first-rank opposition, a man who would get the labor vote, but not be tied to it. Fiftyish, iron-grey Judge Jesse Martin Combs, a vigorous jurist, has never been defeated; he is a States' rights critic of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic program but an ardent supporter of the President's foreign policy...
Marshal Stalin is 5 ft. 5 in. tall. But there was magnetism and a certain majesty in the figure with the brushlike mane, iron-grey mustache, a bright Marshal's uniform which was slightly too large for a perfect fit. In all that he did and said, he was quiet, impassive, at times almost immobile. He walked smoothly, effortlessly into every reception and meeting of the Conference. Sophisticated diplomats said that when he passed them in the gardens their hair rose and they quivered. He spoke softly, often in low whispers. To his hearers, his words seemed to come...
Massachusetts' florid-faced, iron-grey Charles L Gifford, 72, a Representative from Cape Cod for 22 years, told the House just when a Congressman can be fearless: "It seems Wendell Phillips once said that when a statesman, socalled, arrives at 70 and when he no longer has any hope of being President, you can get the truth...
...iron-grey, stooped General Giraud's own account, he had done all these things. As if there weren't enough mystery already, Giraud's status grew even cloudier after he crossed into Vichyfrance...
...President. He even looks the part. Iron-grey, over six feet tall, lean, muscular, cold, with a hawk nose, and down-slanting heavy brows that are a cartoonist's godsend, he looks, as he is, a personification of stubborn and violent will. Characteristic was his reply, as President-elect, to banqueting businessmen who proposed certain Governmental measures: "Don't advise me, I prefer to be wrong alone...