Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Except for Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas- who, beyond the two-party pale, was almost inaudible...
...have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out out of mind . . . I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion...
...characters, a Red Army man, drawing on his experience: "Probably not enough material to finish the shoes." Said his witty comrade: "No, the Rumanians have a tradition of showing their heels in war." "The women," Sobolev conceded, "are handsome in a standardized way, with carefully made-up faces smoothly pale in spite of the burning sun, with hairdos which are a little too artful and with striking dark red pouting lips - the fashion seems to dictate 'sinful mouths...
...published author by the time he was 20-though much of his town-gossip writing was pale as the moon in the morning-Irving was popular, attractive, the bearer of a charmed life from the time he suddenly got the idea for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (he was crossing a bridge in Westchester) to the time he was captured by Mediterranean pirates. With his successful older brothers making life easy for him, Irving took his lawyer's career lightly. He had only one client, and neglected him. But he knew the old Dutch legends of the Hudson, cheerfully...
...Dogs. The prospect of the Browns winning to give St. Louis its first streetcar World Series (Chicago has had one, New York five) had faded from rosy red to pale, pale pink. St. Louisans, having had a lot of fun while it lasted, sat back to admire the vastly superior Cardinals, riding to their third consecutive National League pennant on a 161-game lead. But there was at least one St. Louis citizen who still believed in the Browns. Blake Harper, concessionaire at Sportsman's Park, was busy preparing a Browns' World Series program, had ordered...