Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City a pale-faced street crowd jigs automatically to the twangy jazz rhythms of Alexandre Tansman's Transatlantique, an accompaniment which makes Dancer Hans Zuellig seem all the more lonely when he loses his girl to a silk-hatted libertine. For The Prodigal Son, the one ballet to have its U. S. premiere last week, Choreographer Jooss went back to the old Biblical legend, cast himself as the square-bearded patriarch, Elsa Kahl as the mother, muscular Rudolf Pescht as the wandering son. Result was not another Green Table, but a ballet with spots that were powerful, spots that...
...throne for Leopold Stokowski. Last winter King Stokowski decided that he wanted more time for "research," more personal freedom than a conductor's routine duties permit. Result was that the Philadelphia Orchestra authorities had to choose another conductor for the bulk of this season, picked Eugene Ormandy, 36, pale, small, blond Hungarian who for the past four years has been leader of the Minneapolis Symphony...
...cold wintry morning pretty, ineffectual Marcia Ward opened her door to a pale, grey-eyed peddler who promptly took charge of the household. Beginning by baking a pie despite Marcia's protests, the peddler, whose name was Hannah Parmalee and who was obviously a cultivated woman beneath her dowdy exterior, launched a series of domestic reforms that saved the harassed Ward family. She cleaned out the basement and sold the unused furniture for $39. She found a cheaper way of buying coal. She persuaded little Wallie Ward to take his castor oil. (She put it in front...
This organization pays its own operating expenses with fees from manufacturers who want their technical problems to be tackled in the Institute's laboratories. In Andrew Mellon's pale thin fingers was placed a bronze plaque showing a young man in laboratory smock, holding up a test-tube and bestriding a smoky factory, with clouds in the shape of chemical retorts. Inscription: "The Pittsburgh Award to Andrew W. Mellon-For Outstanding Service to Chemistry. American Chemical Society, Pittsburgh Section." A similar award made posthumously to Brother Richard Beatty Mellon was received by his son, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon...
...against the British Cabinet on the subject of whales, as 10,000 Norwegian sailors who normally man British-owned whaling ships not only struck but prisoned this British commercial fleet in the deep narrow harbor of the Sandefjord. As the ships lay at anchor, their funnels cold and smokeless, pale-eyed Norwegian seamen in blue jerseys leaned against lamp posts on the quay, seemingly convinced that the British Navy would not invade the Sandefjord...