Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week General Cesare Rossi, thin, prison-pale, and with a scraggly beard was brought to trial. He was allowed no witnesses...
...great lady of Czechoslovakia." Having left his dog on the sidelines, he began the finals last week in his customary way of drawing Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points by passing him. For two sets Richards, pale and imperturbable, saw the ball go by again and again to fall on baselines where he could not reach it and he saw his own apparently ungettable shots come back to him as steadily as though he were playing them off a wall. In the next two sets Richards did what...
Doubtless the pale, weak man at Sandringham is glad that he is no Dictator. But doubtless, too, he was pleased by Sir George's fulsome conclusion: "We English are monarchical to our marrow, and because of this national instinct we can smile smugly at Communist vaporings...
...famed walrus-moustached industrialist and "Richest Man in France." Came a rumor that Germany's bald, flabby-fleshed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann had suddenly collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech, smitten by his old kidney trouble. The rumor was corrected; Dr. Stresemann had merely gone very pale and turned over the task of talking for the Reich to Germany's Minister for Occupied Regions, Dr. Josef K. Wirth, stodgy onetime German Chancellor...
...wickedly dirty hall smelling of beer slops and iodoform, two men, their seconds, the doctors and judge stood on a sawdust-covered dais. "At other tables," said Correspondent Hunt, "students were drinking pale Pilsener beer, as calmly as if they were about to attend a lecture on philosophy." The duelists faced each other, "formal as bride and groom marching to the altar, but far less nervous." Like disciplined gamecocks they stood, a black scarf about each jugular, a pad about each middle. To make the maiming cleanly, each blade was swabbed with antiseptic...