Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slaves are supposed to have held voodoo orgies. He drank a great deal. Mounting debts kept him out of Britain most of his life. In 1818 he married the sister of Leopold I of Belgium. His greatest service to his country occurred when he became the father of a pale and proper little girl who grew up to be Victoria, Queen of England, Empress of India, Defender of the Faith. Last week King George quickly let the new Duke of Kent understand that he must work for his title. Hardly had the great-great-grandson of the last Duke opened...
Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud formations shut out the sky and cloak the whole land in a tent that had the earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits...
...entered the competition between General Motors and Henry Ford. Their start was simultaneous-Sunday 8 p. m. E. S. T. The Detroit Symphony fought for Ford, with Conductor Victor Kolar, yellow-haired Maria Jeritza. 24 choristers. G. M. assembled its own orchestra, hired spectacular Leopold Stokowski to wave his pale hands over it and Tenor Richard Crooks to sing. Soloists will vary in the expensive radio bout. G. M. has a starry list of conductors. Ford will stick to Victor Kolar, Ossip Gabrilowitsch's hard-working associate, who conducted at A Century of Progress last summer. Ford...
...nothing; finally she left her husband and children, went to Germany with Lawrence. Her family were horror-struck but she stuck to her choice. Eventually her husband gave her a divorce and she and Lawrence were married, but for a long time they lived outside the pale. Theirs was a stormy life together. Writes Frieda: "What does it amount to that he hit out at me in a rage, when I exasperated him, or mostly when the life around him drove him to the end of his patience? I didn't care very much. I hit back or waited...
...Ponts were very suave, very self-possessed but not very well dressed. Brothers Lammot (president) and Irènée (vice chairman of the board) were in black, puffing pipes. Brother Pierre (chairman of the board) was dressed in brown. Cousin Felix (vice president) was handsome in pale grey with socks and tie to match. Like burlesque impresarios, munitions makers do not desire publicity. The du Fonts prepared for their ordeal by issuing a 42-page booklet (and a 13-page tract explaining the booklet) stating their company's position in the matter of munitions...