Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a U. S. bootlegger's airplane skidded to a halt in Nassau Harbor last week, a pale, pockmarked, frightened Cuban, Gerardo Machado y Morales, instantly demanded police protection. Nassau's big, black, pith-helmeted police ordinarily carry no firearms, but now rifles were issued to some of them and a guard posted at the Royal Victoria Hotel...
...themselves when suddenly at 10 p. m. explosion after explosion tore the air, broke windows and set women screaming as flames leaped up into the night. "Mother of God it's the President's Palace!" cried husky voices. "A Revolution! They've blown up the President!" Pale but courageous, as the children of a Latin American president have need to be Sons Carlos & Luis and Daughter Maria rushed back the way they had come Though machine guns seemed to be firing though shouts of "Revolution! filled the air, they reached home to find that the Arsenal...
...hoping all the while that the concordat would safeguard their religious rights. As a peace offering to the Nazis, they dissolved their Catholic Centre Party, the Party which fought Prince Bismarck so stoutly three generations ago. the Party which gave to the German Republic one of its greatest Chancellors, pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working Bachelor Heinrich Brüning (TIME, April 7, 1930 et seq.). Seventy-three Catholic Centre Deputies of the German Reichstag and 68 in the Prussian Diet were refused permission to join the Nazis last week and became ''men without a party." Most of them...
...than have been broken by the unbalanced budget of the last three years. Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House last March under a solemn campaign pledge to cut Government costs 25%, and to make ordinary Treasury receipts equal ordinary expenditures. Herbert Hoover handed him over the 1933 budget-a pale sick thing two-thirds gone and beyond salvation. But beginning July 1 President Roosevelt was master in his own financial household. Discharged employes might commit suicide but the President was prepared to economize as even Calvin Coolidge never dared to do. On July 1 more than...
Very few of Fiske's pale paraphrases of barroom jokes, his irrelevant elaborations of smoking-room mythology, are as frankly dramatic as "Mr. Jones's Night Off." Most famed is the ballad of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon"-a wretchedly voluptuous fish who said to herself: "There must be more to this sex-life than just swimming over each other's eggs." She put a badge on her right shoulder saying "I will share," paid a visit to Fanny Bored, the world's oldest mermaid, finally had an uncomfortable liaison on a barnacle bed, with an octopus...