Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School students, incensed over a recent statement in Yale-controlled Life Magazine, have challenged the Eli football coach to a gastronomical contest. The remark, contained in the Luce publication's pale blue appraisal of the nation's new coaches, said, "Herman Hickman can eat more than any two men alive...
Following the Cayugan contest, Army, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Princeton and Brown will perform for Stadium crowds before the team journeys to New Haven to meet Yale November 19. The schedule: Sept. 24 Stanford at Pale Alto Oct. 1 Columbia at New York Oct. 6 Cornell Oct. 15 Army Oct. 22 Dartmouth Oct. 29 Holy Cross Nov. 5 Princeton Nov. 12 Brown Nov. 19 Yale at New Haven
...women, pale blue is good: it comes out on the screen a charming off-white. Various shades of blue offer a fine range of greys. Bright purple turns into a steady, solid black...
...detective scoffs at the old society-is-to-blame alibi by reminding the thug that they both started with exactly the same disadvantages. Before the picture is over, the criminal has proved that law-breaking is the least of the things which put him outside the pale. Without ever showing a flicker of remorse, he double-crosses a fellow crook, murders a lawyer (elegantly played by Berry Kroeger), charms a hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts...
...unhurried deliberate man of medium height (5 ft. 10½ in.), a little paunchy and careless of dress. With his pale face, grey-fringed, bumpy bald head, and shrewd appraising eyes, he looks like a country doctor. At the end of his 17-hour day his cheeks are sunken and he puffs a little as he climbs to the attic bedroom of his stately 22-room Georgian house in Richmond's swank Hampton Gardens. But Freeman has no intention of dropping any of his fulltime jobs. For 33 years he has been editor of the Richmond News Leader...