Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report to the Devon Education Committee : "The rural child has lost its heritage to the child bred in the country. Formerly one pictured the country child with a chubby face, pink cheeks, bright eyes and sturdy figure. Now you find many of the children in country schools are pale-faced, anemic...
...what is a "Cabot" etymologically? It is "the vulgar name" of a fish with many other aliases, "cabasuda," "cabasuc," "cabotin," "Joel", in short, a "bullhead." In heraldry it is a fish with a big head. "Little Codfish Bull cad at Harvard!". At this barbarous fish-chowder the Sacred Codfish, pale at the gills, bites off its own scales, and the codlings "waggle heir tails about," not in the praiseworthy intention of the hymn, but in agony and despair...
...member has now joined the group--Black, according to Professor P. W. Bridgman '04, Professor of Physics in the University. Phosphorus means "light- bearer" and most of us have seen the glow which the old-fashioned "all-day choker" matches gave out when scratched in the dark. This pale glow is due to white phosphorus used in making the head of the match so that it will strike easily and anywhere--from the thumb nail to the trouser...
...flags surrounded the cortege, and bore the anti-Jewish swastika cross, old Monarchist and Prussian flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist hymns arose, adjacent factories and warehouses were lined with workers, stenographers and pale-faced girls who struck up the Communist Internationale in competition with the blare of the Reischswehr bands...
Congratulations were showered on Nicholson. Churchill turned ashen pale. His cigar dropped from his mouth and rolled unnoticed to the floor. His wife buried her face in her hands. "Demand a recount," whispered Churchill's campaign manager. "I demand a recount !" cried "Winnie." The result was the same...