Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Globule," by the premier parodist of England, Editor Squire of the London Mercury, when "sturdy tenantry" assembled at Norman grey Arundel Castle to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Premier Duke and Earl of England, shy, none-too-bright Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan- Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Baron Maltravers, Earl of Surrey, Baron FitzAlan, Clun and Oswaldestre, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England (TIME, June 10). The diffident Duke, who in addition to his titles is the chief Roman Catholic peer in Great Britain, has been schooled entirely by private nurses and tutors...
Edison. Most prized award of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers is the Edison gold medal. Its recipients have included George Westinghouse. Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Robert Andrews Millikan. Last week in Manhattan it was given to tall, grey-haired Charles Felton Scott, 65, native Ohioan, electrical engineering professor in Yale University. In the field of power transmission his work has been noteworthy; professionally renowned is he for the Scott transformer which changes two-phase to three-phase alternating current...
...From the cradle to the grave he was impelled by one secret devouring thought: India." Europe kept getting in his way, but that was an accident. "What a man does in life is but a sketch-sometimes even the contrary-of what he dreams. We dream red and live grey, alas! The red dream alone is my passion. I have not beard enough to be an historian...
...summer, swift motorboats cleave both Manhattan's broad grey Hudson River and narrow, oily East River. But unusual is the sight that Manhattanites had last week-a tarpaulin-covered motorboat left all night on a truck at a Park Avenue corner. Many another night and all day many another glistening, rivet-new motorboat was being carted through the streets. Gapers who followed these land-hauled boats found they were bound for Grand Central Palace, there to bask in blue and silver brilliance for the 25th (Silver Anniversary) New York Motorboat Show...
...last Davis Cup matches. If Tilden needs help again this year, Mr. Collom will not be there. Last week the elections committee of the U. S. L. T. A. nominated Louis B. Dailey, Manhattan realtor, as its next president. He has been serving as vice president. Tall, iron-grey-haired, Mr. Dailey has served ably on many a tennis committee. He has a genial yet judicious fashion of speech, and just the mind for a committeeman, respectful of the subject in hand, scrupulous in detail. His office is in the Equitable Building, Manhattan. He has a son who plays good...