Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clicking white cue-ball in its geometrical course. There, in the cozy twilight, they howl and argue and relax. When their backs cluster too thickly around the play, they turn and shout for help. They cry for the arbiter of this musky underworld, and from behind the counter a grey old man, watching with cold, steel-blue eyes, rises slowly and shows the boys. And once old Ben shows the boys, he may be seen casually running off five hundred at straight rail...
...Negroes flocked to Natchez from Vicksburg, Centreville, Vidalia, Baton Rouge, even from New Orleans. Paid admissions: 557. The night was warm. Only way into the building was the front door; the Moneywasters had boarded the windows against peepers and gate-crashers. Tobacco smoke fogged the hall. Under the grey, dry Spanish moss which hung two feet above the dancers, the crowd on the floor yelled, clapped, sweated, stomped. Moneywaster Charley Hall and a helper, Johnny Jones, slaved at the bar in happy violation of Mississippi's dry law. By 11:30, the party was getting hot. A male guest...
Homer Ferguson is a quiet, mild-mannered Scotsman with unruly grey hair, nearsighted, friendly blue eyes, and a keen mind which he is never in any hurry to make up, or afterwards change. A graduate of the University of Michigan's Law School, he taught school, studied medicine and dentistry before he decided he wanted to practice law. From that point his career ran in a straight line...
...promptly got an announcer's license, later a timekeeper's license-first ever issued to a woman. Last week, in the State examination for referees. Intruder Martell got 97½. a higher mark than any of the 23 male applicants. After looking her over in the official grey trousers, however, the State Commissioners told Referee Martell she could wear a grey skirt...
Ringmaster of this gigantic art circus was a talkative, six-foot, grey-thatched former philosophy professor named Arthur Upham Pope who gave up philosophy 15 years ago because he liked Persian rugs better, soon found that he could make five times his professor's salary as an expert rug appraiser...