Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom they award degrees. No matter what professional field the college man may enter, the subjects studied outside of this field present a background upon which his specialized knowledge will have to work. Moreover, work not in a specified field offers a chance for contacts outside the particular professional pale which are daily becoming more difficult for the super-specializing American. In the final analysis, college really represents an a vocational rather than a vocational institution, and any attempt to change this intention would only lead to the harming of the many for the good of the very...
Ruthless at clapping alcoholics into asylums, bootleggers into jails, is knobby-fisted General Jalander, Prefect of the half-million Finns in Usimaa Department. Pale-nosed teetotalers received last week with mixed feelings one of His Excellency's pepperiest pronouncements...
...round face moon-pale, Mayor Boess stood by the rail of the superspeedy S S. Bremen as she was warped into her pier at Bremerhaven. Dock police were struggling with shouting Communists who strove to hold aloft a six-foot banner on which the words BOESS-SKLAREK were accusingly visible. Deep boos, shrill whistles echoed from the dockside...
...alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger was young, his debut was an ordeal. But stern fellows like Oscar Thompson of the Evening Post and Richard L. Stokes...
Suddenly a young man in pale grey knickerbockers, his own face even paler, darted through the police cordon, pointed a nickel revolver at Prince Umberto, fired, then tripped over a trolley track as he fired again. Instantly Brussels' famed War-time hero, Burgomaster Max sprang in front of H. R. H. to shield him. The royal chauffeur beat down the assassin's arm. A policeman struck him swiftly with his sword...