Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause and cheers for 15 minutes-proof enough that Leon Trotzky is still great, though subservient to Dictator Stalin...
...Post's pale page...
Amazing, fragmentary child's world: But Ecclesiastic Cadman had stopped and the pale handmaiden found herself facing the embattled visages of churchmen, curiosity-seekers, smart reporters, cynics, all agreed secretly to themselves to be as tolerant as possible...
Within, seated, there was silence. The Archbishop of Canterbury rose, 78, gaunt; intoned: "Pater noster . . ."* Before him, on a stand, was a pale green-covered book. This book, said he, was the Alternative Prayer Book, which the bishops of the Church of England recommended be adopted in place of the Book of Common Prayer. English culture had changed considerably since the present prayer book was authorized -in 1662, and a prayer book should be consonant with today's needs. This Alternative Prayer Book was "permissive only." A priest could use the altered prayers, if he pleased and his congregation...
...sitting at her bedside in a Chicago hospital. Flowers from Gertrude Ederle, Jack Dempsey, Tex Rickard and many another were brought in by her parents. She had been sick for 92 days. She, who had many times looked up from thrashing waters and laughed at the sun, grew pale, saw no sun. Sybil Bauer had ceased to live; her family, her fiance, sports lovers, bowed their heads...