Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benkard & Co., Manhattan stockbrokers entering the offices of the firm one morning last week, stared in amazement at a clerk who was putting up the opening prices, for this individual was clad like no other clerk in the history of Wall Street. He had on a pale smock with a rolling collar and an open neck-a garment of the type that is popularly supposed to be the uniform of artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending over desks and adding...
...holding its first session no less than thirteen months after its election. To be specific, the eighty-ninth Congress was elected in November, 1924, at the same time that Mr. Coolidge defeated Davis and LaFollette, one of whom has since died while the other has passed far beyond the pale of popular memory...
...addressing the Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Rector for the last quarter-century of St. Thomas' Church, Manhattan, who knelt before him, pale and grave. In the chancel stood 35 bishops; 430 clergymen were ranked in files in the nave; hundreds of wealthy laymen were packed shoulder to shoulder in those stalls not reserved for the ordained. Already Dr. Stires had received a magnificent Bible from Mrs. George Hardwick, his 80-year old mother-in-law; already 80 of his admiring colleagues had presented him with an amethyst ring; already the great procession -so long that the processional hymn...
Twitching impatiently at a laurel twig, the Premier suffered himself to be congratulated for a few moments. Then the twig snapped; Il Ditce's eyes became luminous in their pale sockets. Striding to the rostrum amid ringing cheers, Mussolini performed the Fascist salute, extending his right arm forward and upward in the gesture of the Caesars...
...fanaticism for cremation. His deathbed plea cleanses Karl and he pushes the Crucifixion to an immense conclusion, only to have it denounced as a plagiarism on the day's jazz. Then more irony, the War?and Karl home after it with the sorrows of Germany in his pale face, needing convalescence like the world...