Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consent to Georges Rouault. Born shortly after a shell knocked his mother out of bed during the Paris insurrection of 1871, Rouault was first apprenticed to a maker of stained glass, later became the favorite pupil of the academic painter, Gustave Moreau. Since Moreau's death in 1897, pale, clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life. Every day he goes to the little Moreau museum, of which he is curator, near the Gare St. Lazare, often lunches violently with his old friend, Ambroise Vollard, returns to a mysterious home to paint, in brutal black outline, with dark...
...years ago, when Congress Cigar Co.'s Son & Heir Bill Paley became CBS's 27-year-old president, it was a puny network. Although irreverent young employes stealthily called him Pale Billy (purely a trick of transposition, for he likes hot countries, bright sunlight, is usually healthily bronzed), in three months he tightened CBS's contracts with its affiliates, gathered 22 more stations into his network, refused to sell CBS to Paramount Publix Corp. for $1,500,000. Nine months later he sold Paramount Publix a half interest for $5,000,000, within three years bought...
...appointed minister to England. The extent of English hostility to the North stunned him; an army was sent to Canada; Gladstone proudly put $10,000 in Confederate bonds; an invasion from Canada was momentarily expected; and Adams was in such despair that, even as an old man, he grew pale when he thought of that time...
...Hankow, attired in a new uniform of pale lavender, Generalissimo Chiang urbanely gave a press interview last week, his chief point being that the U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France and other nations, in their own interests, "should make a joint display of firmness and solidity" against Japan. They should learn as China has learned, declared the Generalissimo, "that compromise cannot maintain peace, that aggressors must be defeated by force!" Washington statistics released last week disclosed that during the past 14 months the U. S. has sold $13,795,000 worth of finished war materials to China...
...Ruth and Eileen never lost their love for it. In Cleveland, they sat through Theda Bara and Wally Reid pictures, holding their hats before their eyes at the sad parts, weeping copiously. They were getting to be big girls, having their teeth straightened, when Rudolph Valentino appeared to pale all previous movie experiences...