Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little tiresome too. They blamed the first on the breathless pat-a-pat reading of Conductor Damrosch, the second on the frigid finger tips of Pianist Cortot. All praise went to two Debussy Nocturnes that came after intermission: Clouds moving slowly, solemnly, now white, now grey, now reflecting the pale splendor of a dying sun; Festivals with its wise laughter, frail and unearthly-and to the Meistersinger Overture that blew its virtues boldly into the darkest crannies of the hall and drew forth an ovation for the orchestra and its leader...
...them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch's pin or a bat's flight. None are straightforward or prosaic. Together, colored over and shaded in with pale washes, they create pictures of a world, half small-animal, half fairy, in which no one could fail to believe, if only because it is quaint, beautiful, impossible...
Moving behind green and yellow windowshades drawn against the incandescence of the sun, doing business, after the siesta, over a glass of rum-punch and a long pale cigar, the gentlemen of Havana, Cuba, deported themselves last week as usual. They came in at dusk from their offices and clubs, from exercise in fencing-school and walks on the Prado; they thought comfortably that it was still some time before they must start dressing for dinner, and noticed with astonishment the blackness of the air. Was there going to be a storm, they wondered...
...Memphis; and Charles Boardman, whom Georgia later married, rides off to college with a slave, two horses, dogs and his gun. Such central story as the book has is that of Cousin Ellen Stark, who comes to "Heaven Trees" from chill and granite Vermont, there to unfold from a pale violet of a girl into the rarest Southern orchid of them...
...Kearney preserves with such care the causal sequence of the story that Mr. Dreiser's tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions. Morgan Farley throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams. But in the poor factory girl, Roberta Alden, he has already set up a barrier to marriage with Sondra-the result of a lonely, passionate, summer romance...