Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis Cup matches last week, Australia was in a tennis tizzy that made U.S. excitement over a World Series look pale. Even the impending visit of Queen Elizabeth was crowded off the front pages. Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies got so excited that he arrived for the Melbourne matches an hour and a half early. And one paper, the Melbourne Argus, felt called upon to write an open letter to Australia's two 19-year-old tennis prodigies, Lewis Hoad and Ken Rosewall, trying to take the pressure off the youngsters. Gist of the letter: "If you lose...
Later, Prince Esterhazy offered a ransom for the skull. Rosenbaum solemnly sent a random substitute which was duly buried with Haydn's bones. The prince never paid the promised ransom, but Rosenbaum had the last laugh, confessed the fraud in pale glee on his deathbed. He passed the relic to a friend, with the request that it be placed eventually in the museum of Vienna's ultra-respectable Society of the Friends of Music. After long delays, the skull reached the museum in 1895, where it rests today in a glass case...
...waved back, his pale, sharp face bearing an extraordinarily charming smile...
Then a teller solemnly read the names on the ballots. The cardinals kept score on printed tally sheets. On the third ballot, the decision came. Cardinal Pacelli suddenly hid his deathly pale face in his hands. At the end of the roll, it was evident that only Pacelli had voted against Pacelli. Outside, before the wildly cheering crowd, a cardinal solemnly pronounced the ancient formula: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus papam . . . [I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope...
...source of his contentment is clear from the trophy on the wall: crossed rifle and sword topped by the mounted head of his wife. The trouble with Best Cartoons is that most of them are second best. Too many contributors are serving up Coca-Cola instead of champagne, with pale imitations of such cartoonists as Charles Addams. Peter Arno, and Steinberg. A comparable enterprise might be exporting California Burgundies to France...