Word: blanching
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...Charles Pelissier and Armand Blanch-onnet, French entrants: the annual Paris six-day bicycle race, defeating the American team of Harry Horan and Anthony Beckman, after Beckman had retired from the race on account of stomach ache...
...little theatre movement" when a few days ago Eva LeGallienne, famed director of the New York Civic Repertory, figuratively tweaked the beard of the Admiral of the Boston Navy Yard. Although the Admiral is a willing sponsor of organizations charitable and organizations artistic, his patriotism made him blanch with horror at the thought of including within the sphere of art, that which the artist confessed to be Communistic...
...Derainged perspective, making visible the spirit of these seasons in a bonfire of color as sober reproduction could never do. The work of these Woodstock artists was referred to by an English critic as "rather picayune than Picasso"?a witticism belied by such able technicians as A. A. Blanch, Herman More, H. L. McFee, Harry Gottlieb...
...administrations can point to so much of primary importance, accomplished in so short a time. And of perhaps even greater import, intelligent people can no longer be made to blanch and tremble at the clamors of know-nothings and malicious politicians, that a Laborite regime means hopeless internal disorder, with the abnegation of property rights, and destruction of the family and religion...
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE-E. F. Benson-Doran ($2.00). The last word in literary delirium tremens. A collection of stories that would make a ghost blanch with horror and wrap his white sheets closer about him for protection. Disinterred corpses, supernatural beings, voices from the grave, razors dripping blood, coffins that won't stay underground-till the palsied reader dare not make a dash to negotiate that dark hall which leads to bed and safety. One is left with the conviction that Author Benson must still be sitting up somewhere. How did he ever dare go to bed after writing...