Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Byrd, pale and erect in Navy whites, had to shoulder most of the honors and speechmaking. A gallant Virginian, he repeatedly explained that his comrades were more creditable than himself, and it was to them all that President Louis Delsol of the Paris Municipal Council said: "Paris, gentlemen, salutes in you the United States." But it was to Commander Byrd directly that Marshal Foch said: "It was one of the great feats in history." Commander Byrd had the presence of mind to reply: "There is no one in the world I would rather hear say that than...
...version of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. The heroine of Madame Wants No Children is a newlywed French wife whom the bleak sphinx, Venetian gondolas and an uxorious spouse cannot dislodge from night clubs. Even at home in Paris her life is a succession of jazz blares, pale lights and glittering stuffed shirts. Eventually, however, she joggles down to productive domesticity, mindful that when Baby does arrive, she will have her own night club...
...every head but one rested a flat-topped, tasseled cap; all but one pair of legs marched swathed in the folds of the academic gown. The lone exception was Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who, with silk hat, striped trousers, frock coat and pale blue, pearl-studded tie headed the parade.* He was to deliver the Commencement Address to the 1927 Class of Washington University...
...pale as a sheet in the moonlight" Death came up the golden street on his fastest horse with noiseless hoofs...
...Isolt, and of her recapture by King Mark, and Mark's defeat by her pale steadfastness, and Tristram's last visit to her, when they are slain by crawling Andred without Mark's command, so that the world is emptied for everyone, bringing the tragic peace that Isolt the darker had predicted ? enough is told to trouble the reader greatly though the sense sometimes becomes so rarefied that one welcomes the voice of King Howel, kind father of Isolt the whiter, saying: "You are not going on always with a ghost for company until...