Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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magazines and newspapers print short stories in their contests, but pay only nominal sums for them. The prices offered for poems are ridiculously low compared to the prizes given to undergraduate poets. It can hardly be the complaint of insufficient rewards that dampens the competitors. Nowhere outside the pale is so much attainable with so little effort...
...this the pale bole of the tree...
...flower, and the leaf, and the three pale beautiful pilgrims...
...cast pale angry orbs the room around...
...many months ago, being asked to review the Advocate, I took the occasion to inquire why it is that so many college literary periodicals are pale and bloodless things, and expressed the opinion that the Advocate suffered from not being edited and written for the sake of its readers. My contention was that the magazine was too often a collection of themes written for the composition courses and later embalmed in print...