Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kauffmann, dapper as usual in his grey suit and roll-brim black hat, hurried into the State Department. Cordell Hull was waiting for him. Waiting also was the agreement that Minister de Kauffmann had negotiated, without the knowledge and against the will of his Nazi-dominated Government at home. Pale and unsmiling, he signed; "Judge" Hull, scowling, affixed his nose glasses and signed after him. By the agreement's terms...
...faces of the assembled doctors, bachelors and fellows were pale: many had been up all night fighting fires. But on their backs the tired men wore medieval robes of blue and green, and hoods and scarfs of red and ermine-badges of centuries of tradition...
Persona Non. The pale, tall old Secretary and the President made one further move connected with ships and the Axis. Back to Italy, ordered to leave the U.S. immediately, must go Admiral Alberto Lais, 58, persona non grata to the U.S. for his part in ordering Italian ships sabotaged. Portly, balding Admiral Lais (rhymes with Thais), a prominent society man whose accent is not too heavy, whose risqué stories not too slight, is an affable, easygoing gentleman who twirls his mustache and pops his eyes at the sight of an attractive ankle. Last week...
...Ordered to report April 16 (a month earlier than expected) for his year's military service was bespectacled, Sabbath-observing, unmarried William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange. - After doing her best to save civilization at Geneva, pale, implacable Alice Paul, founder, chairman and planetary lobbyist of the World Women's Party for Equal Rights, landed in New York City, announced: "Men are to blame for the present war." - Straw-haired British Acrobat Jimmy Mollison, who made the first solo flight westward over the north Atlantic in 1932, landed...
Reasons emanating from the Joe Miller Memorial Emporium for their failure to reply to the challenge were that President Coles Phinizy had grown pale and left town, immediately on receiving the gage and that the rest of the 'Poons have been down with severe cases of dysentery for a day and a half on account of the poor food which was served them at their last dinner...