Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observed droppings of deer and coyote all over the place. Even humans had ascended Shiva Temple, as primitive tools and ornaments attested. Eight days after the expedition began Mr. Andrews came down to admit that none of the specimens was "spectacular." Leader Anthony, however, thought he detected a "pale characteristic" in the animals-for example, a grey stripe in the chipmunks-and unusually "xerophytic" plants.* The mosquitoes, he said, seemed to have forgotten how to bite. But among nearly 100 animal specimens collected there was not a single new species, let alone a new genus or a new family...
...succession last week: 1 ) when the swank Knoedler Galleries opened their season with an exhibition of 21 flower paintings by the wife of a Hollywood producer. and 2) when the paintings turned out to be not so bad. Mrs. Bessie Lasky is the wife of Mr. Jesse Lasky. Slender, pale, serene, with curly Titian hair and a love of Chinese pajamas, she has been painting ever since the Laskys became prosperous about 15 years ago. Of her subjects she says: "I understand flowers better than anything else. To me they are human-as human as people.'' Also much...
...like springs, came bounding past in pairs, their sleek orange fur glistening in the half-light, their white bellies immaculate as snow. Bundles of purplish fur bobbed up and down amongst the water weeds, every now and then appearing on open patches of mud and sand, balanced on their pale, stilt-like supports and long, naked tails. A marsh rat (Malacomys) has much to do as darkness falls, searching out likely feeding grounds, cleaning his dense woolly coat, preening his immense whiskers, and apparently fraternizing with his kind...
...flower ever bloomed so long or so repeatedly as the rumor that able Edward McGrady was about to resign as Assistant Secretary of Labor. Yet month after month-in the pale shadows cast by the matronly figure of Madam Secretary Perkins-he sweated over the job of settling major strikes. Last week the old rumor of his resignation blossomed once again, perhaps for the last time. For next day, after a conference with the President, Ed McGrady denied for the nth time that he had quit, denied in a way that amounted to a confirmation. Said he: "I have...
Last week newshawks were allowed to see him as he lay in striped pajamas on his sickbed. Hollow-eyed and pale, Ossietzky knew that if he got himself imprisoned again, it would be his death. He gave a buttery account of the gracious, paternal fashion in which the Government had looked after...