Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gino Lucetti, a pale young man dressed in a neat brown suit, awaited the Premier's car at the Porta Pia. His slightly bulging coat pockets held four hand grenades which he had saved from the days when he fought for Italy in the World War. One trouser pocket was full of dumdum bullets. The other held a dumdum-loaded revolver and 60 lire ($22) in small bills...
...seeing her displayed over at least ninety-five per cent of the entire length of her newest film. Her story is that of a poor but honest lass from a downtown burlesque show. She is vital. She turns handsprings, plays with a parrot. She is not like the pale water flowers of young Mr. Alden's Park Avenue set. So Mr. Alden decides to marry her. But first she must learn fine manners. Alas! Fine manners destroy her piquant charm. She reverts to handsprings, to the parrot. It ends happily and is almost utterly devoid of sense or beauty...
...there was a stir last year when its authors, Composer Deems Taylor and Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, were commissioned to contrive an all-native opera. The music is finished; Deems Taylor is in Europe. And last week came news that, despite the ravages of a long illness, the pale and slender young librettist had finished a first draft of her end of the work. She had begun it in her Greenwich Village home ("narrowest house in Manhattan"), abandoned it during a breakdown, lately brought it to completion at a retreat in the woods of Maine. A lightsome, fanciful opera...
First to demonstrate radium's effect on diamonds was Sir William Crookes of England, who kept a large brilliant in powdered radium bromide for 16 months, when he found it turned pale green and possessed radioactive properties. There was no reversion or diminution of the change in twelve years thereafter. U. S. chemists have since corrobated the green effect in radiumized diamonds. Dr. Field is first to announce a blue-white effect. Other experiments with radium have turned pink synthetic sapphires red or orange; a white sapphire yellow; blue sapphires gray or brownish green; a colorless topaz to amber...
...president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a pale, cheerful, young man, stood upon the platform of the august Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford last week and remarked: "The state of fishing has, I believe, been said to exist when there is a fool at one end of a string and a worm at the other. . . ." The president, elected to preside over the 95th annual meeting of this hoary and distinguished assemblage, had chosen to quip facetiously and without precedent. The president's audience, numbering some 1,500 distinguished scientists, twittered and tittered with ap- preciation...