Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City, bustling citadel of London finance, "Leith-Ross of the Treasury" is an awe-inspiring name, but few Britons outside the pale of highest Empire finance have ever heard of him. Last New Year's Day small notice was taken when the King-Emperor made Sir Frederick Leith-Ross a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. Soon afterwards the City heard that tall, cool, piercing-eyed Sir Frederick, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, would be sent to the White House this autumn to negotiate a final settlement of the Empire...
Harvard is certainly not in this class. Very few of its employees work under conditions beyond the pale of NRA standards. This has led some people to say that a slight rise in costs would be well worth risking for the sake of making a patriotic gesture. But if Harvard is at one end of the ladder, at the other end are such colleges as Piedmont, whose altruistic faculty serves enlightenment to the Appalachian hill-billies in return for potatoes, pumpkins, and watermelons. It would be a gesture costly to the cause of education if Harvard were to arouse prejudice...
...John Singer Sargent had done them both. Last week a third was added. The painter was one Michael Matsakas, 36, a Greek Chicagoan with curly black sideburns, who has been a busboy, wrestler and interior decorator in public; a poet, philosopher and painter in private. The price: a used pale blue necktie...
...Whistler-A boy in Vermont, accustomed to working alone, was so prone to whistling, that, as soon as he was by himself, he un- consciously commenced. When asleep, the muscles of his mouth, chest, and lungs were so completely concatenated in the association, he whistled with astonishing shrillness. A pale countenance, loss of appetite, and almost total prostration of strength, convinced his mother it would end in death, if not speedily overcome, which was accomplished by placing him in the society of another boy, who had orders to give him a blow as soon as he began to whistle...
Jumps. H. E. ("Spud") Manning hugged a 25-lb. sack of flour in his arms when he baled out at 14,000 ft. in one of his famed delayed-opening parachute jumps. His tail of flour against the pale blue sky made him look like a comet's ghost as he plummeted down a full two miles. Not until he was within 1,000 ft. of the ground did he jerk his rip cord, break his 147-111.p.h. fall, soar down to a perfect two-leg landing in midfield...