Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jaded crew of idlers called the Galère, who assemble in Paris, London. Venice and New York, indulge in easy, intermittent love affairs, drive fast cars, make scandals for the tabloids by being interviewed in crowded beds, and generally delight in their reputations for wickedness. A pale, pretty English War widow, Bianca does not really belong with them. She observes them first with detached interest, later plays their game with ironic humor, tries unsuccessfully to prevent their irresponsibility from climaxing in tragedy...
...easy that day. He felt a little better. A week before when he opened the great debate on enlarging the Supreme Court he had had a touch of the heart trouble which sometimes bothered him. "No more questions today," he cried. "Goodby!" and stalked from the floor looking pale. Few of his colleagues had known what to make of it. Only yesterday he had had another touch. Sitting in his front row seat on the aisle, he had swung around to listen to Senator Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming, speaking against the Court Bill. Mr. O'Mahoney...
...general today is moonfaced, bespectacled Yang Hu-cheng. As battle lines were drawn near Peiping last week and sporadic warfare crackled, General Yang was very far away, just landing in San Francisco with his tight-skinned little Chinese wife and their bright, button-eyed boy. Gesturing expansively with a pale Corona, General Yang welcomed alert California reporters. They wanted a good look at this celebrated Chinese commander who, when he found that another Chinese commander had kidnapped Chinese Dictator-&-Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, acted without a moment's hesitation and hijacked the kidnapping (TIME, Jan. 4, et ante...
...longer ladies, but had not yet become gentlemen," a neurotic old maid on a manhunt, uninhibited servants. It is a lay character also who brings about Canon Carmichael's fall-a beautiful, intelligent German girl who marries a Silbury business man. When the Canon meets her he turns pale and mutters that she reminds him of someone. The reminder is of a German peasant girl whom he deserted 25 years back when he was offered a canonry. Since that time the mere mention of Germany has been enough to make him go to pieces. But it has never occurred...
...Bertha is always strictly accurate in her figures or her facts, her narrative is cauliflower-ear-marked by the brutal truth, wears no wig. Beside Sister of the Road, such recent revelations as Mark Benney's Angels in Undress and John Worby's The Other Half, pale into comparative respectability. Bertha's birthright was a mess. Her mother, a handsome blonde who advocated and practiced free love on her father's Kansas farm, had four children, each by a different man, took to the road when Bertha was an infant. Bertha's "first playhouse...