Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factories slipped rather abruptly into town under this tepid title. Owing to fancied labor troubles in Boston, the production opened without benefit of preliminary tests. Witnesses declared that Boston was blessed by the loss. Writh the exception of Jack Hazzard and a tune or two, Bye, Bye, Barbara was pale entertainment...
...child in her mid-teens. Alix spent half the year with her father's father, the remainder with Maman, under the terms of the divorce. Tradition, strongest in the outcast, dictated innocence for a jeune fille; ultimately a husband, un foyer. For jungle life outside society's pale, however free and beautiful, had its fierce dangers, its pain. A mother seeks to spare her daughter these-and Madame Vervier was a devoted mother...
Time was not in Elfland, nor dawn nor sunset nor any change at all. The deep 'blue of summer gloaming, the pale blue of Venus flooding the evening, the night-blue deeps of twilit lakes-these were hints of Elfland's color, as the rarest of earthly smells and shapes and sounds were hints of Elfland's other beauties...
Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the General Board of the U. S. Navy, attended the Institute, "determined to be as disagreeable as ever." He is a pale man, but can see red. Chafed by three days of peace palaver, Rodgers blurted out that before the century ends the U. S. will, the U. S. should, plunge into a war of aggression...
...Black Cross Nurses, Negro Boy and Girl Scouts, members of the African Orthodox Catholic Church headed by Dean Toote. Every one was suitably attired, from the Legionaries in black and red uniforms with gold lace, to Dean Toote in a purple cassock with a shoulder-sash of white and pale blue carrying a placard: "Independent Church. The Black Jews of the Judea Tribe of Israel, driven out of Judea into Abyssinia by the Gentiles." There were many other placards. One read: "By the science of perpetual motion, the Negro will conquer Africa...