Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Brandeis declared the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Bill unconstitutional (see p. 15). Then all that news of a newsworthy Court session grew inconspicuous. The Chief Justice announced that he would read the Court's decision concerning four poulterers from Brooklyn. Donald Richberg visibly stiffened and grew pale. The Chief Justice began to read. Only a few sentences had left his mouth when a newshawk scribbled on a piece of paper: ''Can there be a new Recovery Law?", passed it to Donald Richberg. A moment later it came back, bearing the comment of the NIRB Acting Chairman...
...Louis a similar plan was adopted, but St. Louis' worries pale in comparison with Philadelphia's. When the Symphony moved into the new St. Louis Municipal Auditorium last autumn, attendance increased 50% over the previous season. By last week all but 10% of next season's subscriptions had been sold...
...clerk in Manhattan, fight promoter in Great Britain, biggest bear since Jesse Livermore, greatest bull since William Crapo Durant. The commodity in which he is always bearish is hooey. Every time President Hoover and Dr. Julius Klein said things were going to get better in 1930, the profane, pale-eyed Irishman unloaded his stocks. ("Sell 'em," said he. "They're not worth anything.") The commodity in which Ben Smith is always bullish is gold. Only U. S. director of Mclntyre Porcupine gold mines, he has a large stake in Alaska Juneau, carries a miniature gold brick...
Allied propaganda. To U. S. citizens who remember the mighty machinations of George Creel's Committee on Public Information, the Allied propaganda may seem pale in comparison. But it was all pervasive and continuous, and it dated from before the War. The U. S. was used to considering London "not only the cultural and social capital of our wealthier and more influential classes; so far as European events were concerned it was our newspaper capital as well." And, though such tall stories as the famed German "corpse-factory" were pure fabrications, the mass of Allied propaganda carried the weight...
...easy step. Though U. S. General Sherman had coined the phrase, the U. S. never grasped the fact that war is hell, thought (under advice) the Germans must be hellions. "Innumerable sensible Americans were . . . genuinely, seriously convinced that Germans were a peculiarly fiendish and brutal race, quite beyond the pale oi ordinary humankind...