Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best of the three is Out of Africa, by the author of Seven Gothic Tales, an eerie, distinguished best-seller of 1934. It was later revealed that Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of the Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke, a slender, pale, large-eyed, middle-aged Danish woman whose divorced husband is a well-known big-game hunter, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a distant cousin of King Christian of Denmark. Married in 1914, they went out to British East Africa, where her family bought them a 6,000-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, capital of Kenya...
Such was H. L. Mencken's first gleeful antic during the first week of the loftiest newspaper job in his career, the editorship of the staid Evening Sun. Thus was Mencken, his pale blue eyes agoggle, his single-breasted suit stretched across his bountiful belly, cocking a snook at his eager literary undertakers. Four years ago his plentiful enemies rushed him to his grave when he ended a nine-year editorship of the American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual...
Beneath the fun ran a muddy stream of intrigue and high politics. The Stage Hands were wangling for jurisdiction over the Screen Actors. Secretary Joe Obergfell of the Brewery Union was there to keep Teamster Dan Tobin from getting any more beer drivers. Lean, pale Charles P. Howard (who is C. I. O.'s secretary but whose union is still A. F. of L.), hovered in the background like an unbidden ghost, protecting his preserve from jurisdictional poaching by letting it be known that his Typographers might soon hold a referendum on joining C. I. O. But the most...
...Premier had just passed around Turkish cigarets stamped with a pale blue swastika, traditional European symbol of antiSemitism. He had already announced his intention of sending 500,000 foreign-born Jews out of Rumania, sparing the native born (TIME, Jan. 24, et ante), and now he added...
...high-jump drew a good deal of attention. It was won by a high school boy, Les Steers, of Pale Alto, California at 6ft. 5 3-4 in. Two Harvard jumpers competed, Guill Aertsen '40 and Bob Partlow '41, Aertsen, holder of the Freshman record at 6 ft., 1 5-8 in, cleared 5 ft., 11 in, and Partlow cleared the 6 ft., 1-4 in, mark, but failed at the next height...