Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volga Boatman. Cecil B. DeMille, whose name has become synonymous with ridiculous excesses in bathtubs and flappers, has turned to Russia. He has taken the seething horrors of the Russian Revolution and turned them into a pale pink romance that will give you the fidgets. The Boatman of the title falls in love with the Princess, and the Princess falls foul of the wicked soldiers. The picture is often rescued by sets and photography of startling beauty...
...eagles in cages, chained raccoons, doleful bobcats leashed to posts on the lawns of Western hotels; for dancing bears, monkeys leashed to street organs; for imprisoned hawks, falcons, caracals and creatures robbed of their swiftness; for leopards padding up and down in cages and lions whose pale eyes blaze till death with longing for the forests they have left behind forever-many persons feel pity, but few utter their pity. John Galsworthy, now visiting the U.S., has pitied many social animals. Last week he enunciated (from a Manhattan radio station) his views on the caging of wild ones...
...time since the wreck of the Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14), the dirigible Los Angeles rose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., and headed south-east against an April wind. The early excursionists in Asbury Park and Point Pleasant saw her pass, a silver minnow loitering in the pale sky, and they looked at one another and talked stupidly about bolts of lightning, picturing the silver skin gutted and men blown down the night like seeds. Captain G. W. Steele Jr., however, and Lieutenant Commander Charles M. Rosendahl, who flew the ship, indulged in no such morbid associations. "Rosendahl...
...bluish cloud of smoke ascend. An investigating party beheld a hole in the earth 50 feet wide descending conically into blackness. As hours passed, this fissure sucked in the adjacent ground for 300 feet around, gaping out into the dry, sandy riverbed. Out of the bottom darkness, pale greenish waters later welled up and there was the white cow's body floating upon them, 100 feet below ground level. Sulphur fumes arose...
...moneys from the till. On a trip to the old country he nosed around the ship's boiler room, noted the indicator that counted the propeller revolutions, bethought him of a machine full of cog wheels which his barkeeps would operate every time they slid a seidel of Extra Pale across the mahogany. His machine, when a proper key was depressed, clanged a bell and punched a hole in a roll of paper. On good business days the roll might run to a scroll of 20 ft. John Henry Patterson, then running some coal mine stores, bought two machines...