Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia. A great crowd flocked to the Academy of Music one afternoon last week for the opening concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra. "Buzz-buzz-buzz. . ." Well-bred greetings were hushed only when the stage darkened and two swift shafts of light shot out from either wing to frame the pale, curled head of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Up went his hand and beauty floated, spread itself over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer...
...racy, and none too squeamish." He was probably proud of her the snowy night she left his house, penniless, after two years of intense, secret waiting, to marry the man whom she loved and he did not. He was certainly proud of her when, after willing his house to pale-handed nuns, founding a women's refuge" in Chicago and providing that Myra could always go to that refuge free and have pinmoney, he knew that she would sooner go to the river...
...still early. In the pale violet sky an airplane somersaulted, strung with lights...
...Majesty, pale and quivering, regained consciousness almost at once. His physicians, recalling the Emperor's several prolonged fainting spells earlier in the summer issued an official bulletin declaring his health "vastly improved...
...Pale-skinned and obviously overweight, a huge mealy fellow whose labored breathing spoke of too many days spent at an indoor occupation and whose coated ribs hinted at a diet that contained too many starches, Georges Michel, Paris baker, staggered onto the beach having beaten the world's record for channel swimming with a time of eleven hours five minutes. Stalking into a tiny bar in St. Margaret's he had his double whisky and talked about the trip. Champagne, he said, had helped him. He had felt a little seasick but that had passed. Then a cramp...