Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flick of his tails, he stepped into the Ballroom. Past him foxtrotted five hundred League of Nation delegates, some tall, some ridiculously short; all jiggling merrily to a blaring cacophony from the room's far end. Seventy-five feminine representatives blossomed against the wall, some hiding their disappointment, with pale powdered smirks, other bolder ones occasionally stepping out to cut in on a dancing couple...
...London courtroom. On the bench, pale and dignified in a black gown and white wig, last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious...
...doing odd jobs for the monks. He learned to read and quote the Bible and he developed an uncanny faculty for working on the sympathies of women. His beard, his matted hair and peasant blouse are familiar to the world, but those who knew him best remember most his pale, dark-circled eyes. Rasputin was definitely hypnotic...
...nothing one could see, nothing one could read, but suddenly tension throughout Austria relaxed last week. War clouds that have hung so black for so long rolled back a little. There was even a pale hope that Austria might be able to preserve her independence without turning Nazi. U. S. correspondents in Munich reported that detachments of the threatening "Austrian Legion" of Nazis were being withdrawn from the frontier...
...with his small brother Eddie. Gustave lay on the couch for a while, complained that his stomach was hurting, crawled off to bed. Next morning at schooltime he stayed in bed. About noon he crawled downstairs, changed his clothes. His father, home for lunch, noticed that his son was pale and glassy-eyed...