Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaning nonchalantly on the platform railing was plump, pale-eyed Stanley Baldwin, Britain's Prime Minister. While the Bishop prayed, Prime Minister Baldwin mumbled in response and read through his own speech, preoccupied, apparently oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion. Prayers over, he mounted the rostrum. Cocking his head on one side, shooting out his under jaw, he began...
...knew that Rykov, described by New York's Evening Post as "a pale, sticky engineer of lowly birth," was a leader of the "Right Opposition" in the Communist Party; that glutinous Rykov had great influence among the peasants in the country districts, and that these peasants, despite ten years of ceaseless atheistic propaganda, remain hopelessly devout...
...wine-growing districts of Italy planned gifts for the Vatican cellar. From the Alps 5,000 ex-service men had already brought a tun of Piedmont's ruddy Barolos. Sicilians promised 1,000 bottles of tawny Moscato. Tuscany pledged 1,000 of Chianti. Umbria planned a gift of pale Orvieto Secco, most delicate of Italian wines. On the slopes of Vesuvius, Neapolitans prepared 1,000 of Lacrima Christi, Tear of Christ, for Peter's Cellar...
Huge, the pictures represent The Birth of Music. There are bells, babes, crucifixes, saints, sages, violins, all suavely rendered in a flat, decorative style. The colors of these allegorical figures pale beside certain swaths of silver paint and vividly Hungarian ornamentation. It is difficult to see the figures, to comprehend the designs...
...Jane Seymour, still, pale-eyed, blank-faced, pretty. She gave him sickly Edward, his only male heir, then died...