Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the caterwaul Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, pale-faced and tightlipped, sat imperturbably on the treasury bench. Finally, the speaker said that he was under the impression that the proponents of the censure motion wanted a reply...
With the exception of Mme. Prokorov, pale and wasted, all the prisoners appeared healthy and little the worse for their experiences. The two men had beards a month old and both were clad in Moorish dress, their own clothes having been confiscated by the brigands. M. Steeg disported a flowing burnoose, under which he wore a gaudy pair of red breeches and a pullover sweater. M. Maillet was garbed in a coarse white tunic and velvet breeches. The two small Arnaud girls were literally covered with vermin and also dressed in Moorish costume. They stopped crying when familiar French voices...
...tool for the musical genius of one man. In a hodge-podge of Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...
...wealth of descriptive and dramatic detail,--excerpts from psychiatrists' reports, selections from letters, transcripts from diaries, bits of testimony,--worked in with the essential facts of each crime. And so skillfully is it done that the imaginings of a Conan Doyle or an Arthur Train seem like poor, pale stuff in comparison...
...even the cold need of culture dashed on the fire of curiosity can only make a sizzling noise. The fire burns just the same, giving glow enough to draw a sparkle from the jewel most of us are too weak, too pale to wear...