Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinclair Lewis: "Pinkish, redhead, hair smooth and flattened in front, neglected, dishevelled and bunched in brief strands behind. Irritable brow. Long flat plane from temple to collar. Flesh like canned tomatoes with the seeds in it, changing abruptly to cream-colored forehead. Pale blue clever bulgy eyes, glaring dizzily at something in offing, possibly anthill. Sandy eyelashes, invisible eyebrows, lips gathered on a drawstring with puzzled purse like old lady's reticule. Nose of a grocer adding up slip. Freckled hands with an elegant shape, sensitively caressing cigarette. Face wiggles formlessly into collar, long seamy neck to rear. Gold rimmed...
...Christmas Day. This arrangement should continue until Gloria was 21 unless any party concerned should meantime show the Court good cause for change. With the decision Justice Carew and Mrs. Whitney were ready to call quits but not young Mrs. Vanderbilt. Pale against the Japanese wallpaper of her Manhattan livingroom, with photographs of herself and Gloria on the piano, on every table and every lampstand, she received the Press. "I shall carry this case," she announced, "to every court in the United States and to the highest court, whatever that is." Into Surrogates' Court last week marched Lawyers George...
...turned pale. "No one could be using the rifle range this time of night! Nothing's happened to Chet...
From all over Britain they came, dealers, collectors, scientists, tweedy oölogists, pale studious curates. On the auctioneer's pulpit were bids from all over the world, for here was an occasion that might not come again in a lifetime. Six Great Auk eggs, all wrapped in cotton wool and lying in little boxes, and two stuffed Great Auk skins went on sale last week in Stevens auction rooms in London. They fetched a total...
...pale young people who drink sherry at little tables and decide the latest vogues in art were all finished with surrealism years ago. Surrealism may be described as painting the facts of dreams. Example: A little man with a head on which cabbages grow, carrying a huge spoon across a rocky mountain, all painted in meticulous mid-Victorian detail. Month ago a U.S. surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan...