Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago a pale young Hungarian violinist playing in the orchestra at Manhattan's Capitol cinemansion, applied to Conductor Willem Mengelberg for the job of assistant concertmaster with the New York Philharmonic, was refused. The refusal proved fortunate for young Eugene (English for Jeno) Ormandy. Not long afterwards the sudden illness of the Capitol conductor gave Ormandy a chance to show that he could conduct Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony from memory. Eugene Ormandy was leading a radio orchestra when he was called upon last year to pinch-hit for Conductor Arturo Toscanini whose glass arm kept him from...
...play ten years ago. The audience loudly approved his firm, clear beat, his authority over the orchestra, his unmannered way of letting the music speak for itself. He suggested to some people the simple, hard-working conductor that Stokowski used to be before he let his pale hair grow...
...punch had flowed and the Vagabonds' reserve had flowed with it. He determined to abandon himself to the moment; he felt he had to abandon himself to something. As he passed down the steps onto Plympton Street he turned to look again upon the field of his victory. The pale light of early morning was just starting to spread the lemon fingers of disillusion over the field he had just quit. Several of his friends who "couldn't take it" were distributed severally in little heaps about the building, mute testimony to spirits that had passed away...
...Whitaker Wright committed suicide, not in his presence, but in that of (to use your own attractive phraseology) suave, pale-faced Lawson Walton, K.C., by whom Wright was defended. While the suicide was happening. Rufus Isaacs, as he then was, was engaged in a consultation in his chambers. The news was brought to him, and gave him a terrible shock, so he told...
Readers of Sergeant Grischa will remember Hero Bertin as the intellectual military clerk whose sympathy for Grischa was horrified, heartfelt and ineffectual. Here Bertin is shown in palmier days. At the outbreak of the War he was a pale but ambitious youth, a promising author with no money, living in blissful sin in Berlin with Lenore Wahl. Her family, rich Potsdam bankers, looked down their noses at Bertin, not because he was a Jew (they were that too) but because he had no money and because he was regarded as unsound by the Junkers, whom they worshipped. Unbeknownst...