Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Appearance: Although 76 years old, he appears 15 years younger. His eyes, behind pincenez, are bright, his step is lively, his manner politely alert. He dresses well, usually in light grey. He has a pleasant easy smile, speaks in a low voice, ingratiates strangers. An Episcopalian, he regularly attends St. John's Church in Washington, St. John's Church in Stamford. He does not smoke...
Editor Straus persuaded Violinist Jacques Gordon ($1,000 per concert) of the Chicago Symphony to make the experiment. In smoked glasses, matted grey wig. tattered frock coat, Fiddler Gordon posted himself at a busy Michigan Avenue corner, fiddled for 30 minutes on his $40,000 Stradivarius. Pennies, nickels, dimes from passersby totalled...
...supports the Community Chest of Cincinnati where he makes his home. His favorite indulgence is Maillard's caramels with which his pockets are always and everywhere supplied, also his desks, hall tables, offices. He last year shocked a formal Procter & Gamble convention dinner by appearing with an old grey sweater under his coat in place of a waistcoat...
...little to say at Gettysburg. President Hoover, whose personal reverence for the 16th President is deep and true, nevertheless fulfilled a promise given Pennsylvania's far-sighted Governor Fisher in California before election by traveling to the battlefield to deliver a Memorial Day address. For the first time a grey-garbed Confederate Veteran (William Haines, 93, cavalryman) sat on the platform with the President...
...Shepherd dog's vogue is a Van Dyked, pince-nezzed little man who stepped gingerly down a gangplank into the U. S. last fortnight and headed for Madison, N. J., where he assumed his judicial ermine (not his usual German sporting togs and feathered Alpine hat but a grey business suit) at the stylish Morris and Essex Kennel Club show. He, Capt. Max von Stephanitz, one-time cavalry officer in the German army, was the man responsible for the social climb of the Shepherd dog from its lowly position as a German field worker into the world...