Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernest. As sodden and pale as a 10?-portion of mashed potatoes is this musical comedy adaptation of Oscar Wilde's gay farce The Importance of Being Earnest. Wildian epigrams frolic beside such lines as "My Rolls is waiting; so is my coffee." Sometimes the dancing is agreeable...
...Kansas City Star. He was clowning, being loud, disorderly with three drinks under his belt, when a brown-eyed girl, whom he later married, told him to give up "that stuff forever." Then, said he, "I saw the bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale. . . . And I saw a country town, a country weekly, a country politician, with all the large leisure and golden opportunity for decency, comfort, usefulness and prosperity looming up before me as a career." Charles Michael Schwab (steel) visited West Point, entered the mess hall, saw the cadets were hungry, patted...
Chief Boatswain George F. Kahle, piloting the rear plane, straining his eyes through the rain squalls, turned suddenly pale. The leading plane had, at one blinding sheet of lightning, given off smoke and splinters and instantly plunged below, upside down like a shot duck...
...little child to lead them. He is Ottavio Arturo Gallo, 8, son of Headmaster Gallo. In his life, he has not had time to learn how to read music. But he knows it by heart, so he needs no score. An observer crowded into the hallway might see the pale little fellow's reflection in one of the tall rococo gilded mirrors that reach to the ceiling. His hair is not cut short like most boys'. His eyes are so brightly black one wonders at the Gallo family's assurance of his recovery from recent illness...
Majestic--"Pickwick"--8.20 o'clock--Pickwick Pale...