Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tenants at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had their share of moving-in headaches. Ike Eisenhower found the bookcases empty in his White House office, and the pale green walls all but stripped of their pictures.* When Ike started to open his mail, he had to buzz for a letter opener. A little later he tugged in vain at the drawer of the broad mahogany presidential desk (which once belonged to Teddy Roosevelt). "Mr. Simmons." said Ike to Receptionist Bill Simmons, "is there a key to this desk? I can't get into this drawer." Simmons produced a key, Ike opened...
...lightheaded as they are lighthearted. Because the castle is in such an appalling state of disrepair and lacks central heating, Ermyntrude has to haunt it in a muffler. But the other characters pay little attention to her. "A nice little thing," observes one of them, "but rather pale." Castle in the Air is a nice little thing, too, and anything but pale...
...retainers, wise in the ways of Washington. If she abandons her lifelong zeal for running a house and never voices a command,, the house will run well. But if she wants to order every meal, redecorate any or all of 35 upstairs rooms (her favorite colors: rose and pale green), shift Lincoln's famed 7-ft. bed, or plant geraniums in the bathtubs, she has every right...
...less regal than that of President Tyler's second wife, "the Rose of Long Island," who received on a dais, wearing a crownlike headdress of bugles: Mamie's glittering, wide-skirted inaugural gown, designed by Nettie Rosenstein and purchased from Texas' Neiman-Marcus, is of pale rose poult-de-soie, bespangled by 2,000 rhinestones in varying shades of pink. Mrs. Eisenhower's junior partners as official Washington hostesses are the wives of Cabinet officers. Mrs. John Foster Dulles has been ill-but most of the other ladies were trying on gowns for the inaugural ball...
...Alaska visit in 1946 gave Wilber the material for two of his best scripts, A Long Night in Forty Mile and Two Pale Horsemen. Alaska also gave him a touch of gold fever. He does not think of TV writing as a lifework. What he wants to do is make enough money to head back to the Klondike in style. He says, mysteriously: "I know of a lost vein on a ridge between the Chitanana and the Cosna Rivers. I'm going to go back there...