Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resurgency of conviction in the U. S. Senate, but it was completed by Senators who cut their cloth not according to principle but according to political profit. Several men of principle tried to save the President from defeat. Senator Byrd's opinion of spending five billions is pale beside that of Carter Glass, but, rather than see the prevailing wage amendment adopted, Senator Glass manfully fought the President's battle. He read the Senate a letter from the President, solemnly assured his colleagues that he had "substantive reason to believe" that the President would veto the bill...
...pale, haggard man mumbled the words to himself as he slumped lower in his chair in a fourth-floor apartment of the swank colonnaded Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay one day last week. India manager of the great London grain firm of Strauss & Co., he had just been ordered to close his office, stop all payments at once. Presently a messenger arrived with a cablegram. It was from his wife in England. "Try not to worry. Good luck and love." Slowly the man dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered...
...little man who followed Perry to the ping-pong title presents an interesting contrast. Small, pale and agile, with a striking facial resemblance to Cinemactor Richard Dix, Viktor Gyözö ("Viki") Barna was brought up in Budapest, played real tennis as a child, gave it up when he got a table tennis set on his 13th birthday...
Immediately Publisher Marshall set out to make the Times a fit background for himself. He installed a gold-braided doorman with "Times" across his visor, put all the art staff in smocks with "Times" across the fronts, had the building painted pale grey outside, white-&-tan within, had large gilt eagles painted on all doors...
Before going to his own office, the President wanted to see the rest of the building, and Gus Gennerich rolled him around the main floor?through Louis Howe's office with its pale pistachio green walls (about which the President's No. 1 secretary grumbled softly); through the office of Secretary Howe's Secretary Margaret Durand (whose nickname is "Rabbit"); across the vestibule where Captain Clarence L. Dalrymple and Lieutenant Larry Seamen of the White House uniformed police force stand guard to pass legitimate visitors, turn back cranks. The President peeked into the new room set aside for White House...