Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gertrude Atherton has returned to Manhattan from San Francisco and is again becoming immersed in the lit-erary-social life of the metropolis. She is a very handsome woman, more striking than ever in a dark suit, a small dark hat, her pale yellow hair done close to her head, talking in staccato and determined tones-a remarkable woman in more ways than...
...tall, slim, dark man, his hair is streaked with gray. His pale face is adorned with a jet black goatee...
...Schultz and Charlton in Germany. In that test a small amount of serum from a patient who is convalescing from scarlet fever is injected into the skin of a person who may be acutely ill with the disease. If the patient has scarlet fever the skin becomes pale at the spot. This is taken as an indication that the serum of patients recovering from scarlet fever contains antisubstances against the disease, and these act against the toxins causing the eruption and bring about the local blanching of the skin. In 1897, Weisbecker in Germany began the use of serum from...
...William H. Vanderbilt, a son of the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons, to Miss Emily O'Neill Davies, in Grace Church, Manhattan. After the ceremony several shop girls and sweatshop workers crowded past the police guard, entered the church, took as souvenirs some of the pale pink chrysanthemums tied in clusters to the pew ends...
Maugham is dark, pale - with eager, somewhat quizzical eyes. He is detached. I cannot imagine his being perturbed. His speech is slow and his anecdotes are brilliantly effective. He strikes me as a man who sits outside of life watching with almost cat-like eagerness. He understands life too well, he is top aware of events to treat them with tenderness. Perhaps this is because he was at one time a doctor -or, at least, took a degree in medicine...