Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...opponent, James Hamilton Lewis, whom Illinois Democrats had last week nominated for the Senate in their primary. " Jim Ham" Lewis is now 67. His famed whiskers are no longer the glittering pinkish red they were when (1913-19) he was a Senator from Illinois, but have turned a silvery grey.* But his speech is as flowery as ever, his manners as ostentatiously courtly, his choice in waistcoats and neckware as vividly colorful. Said he last week of the Republican primary and Prohibition...
Surprisingly enough, the French secret police partially verified the rumor. General Koutiepoff had been kidnapped in a red taxicab in the Rue Rousselet, they admitted. On the evening of Jan. 26 an unidentified Russian woman at Cabourg, tiny Norman fishing village, had seen the red taxicab and a mysterious grey limousine draw up by the shore. A man dressed as a gendarme and a woman in a tan coat had stepped out, carrying a limp figure which was placed in a motor boat which instantly sped off in the direction of Houlgate. Other witnesses announced that a Russian merchantman...
...greeted a CRIMSON reporter as he stepped into the main room of the Elevated Power Plant on Boylston Street, now in the process of being torn down. Through the hazy air, filled with the fumes of acetylene torches and the odor of lubricating oil, the towering shapes of huge grey generators loomed above the forms of workmen, busily engaged in the job of stripping former dynamos of their essential parts...
From the depths of the English Channel last week the grey conning tower and then the deck of a British submarine rose, spume-flecked, at an historic moment. His Majesty's sub had chanced to bob up directly between the two fastest liners in the world, both German: the nine-month-old Bremen bound for Bremerhaven, and her new sister ship, the Europa, maiden-voyaging to New York...
...Lucy McGill Waterbury Peabody of Beverly, Mass., tall, grey-haired, motherly chairman of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement, who leveled her lorgnette imperiously at the committee to announce that her organization represented 30 nationwide groups with a membership of 12,000,000 women.* She insisted on speaking without interruption by committee members. When New York's Wet Congressman LaGuardia tried to break in upon her for crossexamination, he was hissed by women spectators. After her own appeal, Mrs. Peabody sat down in the front row to coach other Dry witnesses with "Stick to your statement...