Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dumb Show. In the great dark vault of a cathedral on the Rhine stands a wonder-working image of the Virgin. A thousand candle flames flicker, their brilliance reflected in the gorgeous windows, in the golden vessels of the holy service. Worshippers come in throngs to pray, pale-faced nuns do their devotions and priests perform the sacred ritual under a mantle of incense and church music...
Ethel Leginska, in a velveteen dress, with a puff of wiry hair spreading a determined aureole around her pale face, appeared, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as pianist, conductor, composer. Critics agreed that her suite, "Six Nursery Rhymes for Soprano and Small Orchestra," was amusing and adept; that the 85 gentlemen of the orchestra conducted her, rather than she them; that she is a brilliant pianist...
...flimflam flopped from a fillimaloo, Where, the pollywog pinkled so pale...
Architect Warren scoffed at the idea of Clémenceau as an enfeebled old man: "The newspapers are always trying to write obituaries of really great men before their deaths. Who has not heard rumors that Mussolini is a pale spectre of himself, burnt out by overwork? I visited him three weeks ago in Rome, and found him not at all the feeble man tottering into the grave that I had been led to expect. . . . He looks fit, mentally and physically...
...Crawford; what he knows about Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Wells, Shaw, F. Hopkinson Smith ("whom I never could stand personally, or his writings either"). He has told why he was asked to write Whistler's biography; how he came to introduce to the world of art that very pale and precious exquisite, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley...