Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eyes?Blue, mild, pale...
Thought Mexicans: "For Mr. Kellogg, this is a remarkably unequivocal statement. He evidently wants to arbitrate. He seems to have decided that we are not Bolsheviks, and so beyond the pale of lawful arbitration." Straightway the Mexican Foreign Office issued an official statement to the press: "The Mexican Government declares that it is ready to accept in principle that its difficulties with the United States should be decided by arbitration...
...important evening for Willie Hoppe. Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline billiard champion of the world before he had a beard, now challenger to the German, Eric Hagenlacher, he was making a final effort to get his championship. After a run of 23 he failed. Hagenlacher, very pale, began to click his white ivory ball against another white ivory ball and a red ivory ball. He made a run of 283, his best run of the evening. Hoppe could not keep the balls together as he could when he was a boy and the marvel of the country, but making...
...businessman than politician. At home, people know him best as the able manager of the municipal utilities. He says little, admires Roosevelt, wants a low tariff. It was once said: "On the color scale Colonel Brookhart [see below] registers a near-red, while Mr. Howell appears only a pale pink...
Anti-Climax. An entire wagonlit full of correspondents who had accompanied the Queen from Paris were vexed by the necessity of reporting that King Ferdinand, who waited on the platform to greet his royal consort, seemed a trifle pale but by no means at Death's door. The correspondents had come in hopes of witnessing...