Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Fairies); suddenly, of heart disease; at Crowborough, Sussex, England. One of the world's foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days. By now it has been admitted to the full sybaritism of "summerland." Declared his son Adrian: "There is no question that my father will speak to us just...
...months ago the actual work of reconstruction seemed to be finished. Still the enormous grey cloth curtain which tor so many years had shut off dome and crossing from the nave hung in its usual place Disregarding formidable notices: PLEASE KEEP OUT! A bold Daily Mail reporter ducked under the curtain on a voyage of discovery. The great empty vault bare of scaffolding except for a few neglected planks, was complete, looked exactly as he had remembered it. Somewhere in the distance one lone carpenter was hammering slowly on a board...
...correspondents at Paris, "we are just beginning to be able to draw a picture of what Columbus looked like. He was taller than average. He had a long face and a long aquiline nose. His dimpled chin showed strength of character. His cheeks were like red apples, but his grey eyes were wells of emotion. His whole face was freckled, and by 30 he was totally grey...
Glorious Failure. The four men in the Southern Cross strained eyes and ears. Surely they should have sighted Cape Race by this time. Surely an intelligible radio bearing should come to guide them Major Charles Kingsford-Smith scowled at the grey fog outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant...
...writes music, has recently written a ballet for Composer Maurice Ravel. She knows so much about food that even the French consider her a gourmet. Animal-lover, she keeps wild dogs, wild cats in her Paris apartment. She reads very little. Short, thickset, she has wood-colored hair, long grey slanting eyes, speaks in a deep alto. Other books: Chéri, La Vagabonde. La Naissance du Jour, L'Entrave...