Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...businesswoman. Her company 'Clio et Claire' does a nice business in cosmetics. Last week I was said to have chuckled when she announced: 'It is ridiculous to say that women must always affect the same makeup. With some frocks, for example, red lips and pale cheeks only clash. Why shouldn't women paint their lips green? Or blue...
There will always be a certain class which will scoff at such journals as The New Student and which will damn them with the stigma of being a pale pink rather than a blood red. And there are times when such a view is justified. As to this particular publication, however, the contrary holds true. In its sincerity and its very real sympathy for the high ideals for which colleges are striving. The New Student has shown itself a valuable addition to the ranks of constructive critics of modern pedagogies...
...special building, running from the end of Harvard Hall to Massachusetts Hall in which some twenty of the red men could be accommodated. The missionary spirit must have been very strong in our Puritan ancestors for they went to every possible means of luring them within the pale. Besides having their own dormitory the aborigines had most of their expenses paid by friends who were formed into a "Society for Propagating the Gospel...
...whole age." And, inspite of women's suffrage, the widespread influence of modernistic schools of thought, and the unhampered liberty of the rising generation, it brings up an issue which today is far from dead--the great thundercloud of 30 years ago is still anything but a pale glimmer of heat lightening on the distant horizon...
That the best of bromides pale...