Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover believes that Governor Roosevelt & henchmen are trying to steal the presidency from him with lies about his past and misrepresentations about his present. Radio listeners who heard only the Hoover voice imagined him flushed and fighting mad. The President's-audience within the hall saw a pale, distraught man, deeply aroused by political forces beyond his control. His scalding words, his tense tones were what many a Republican had wanted to see him use three months instead of three weeks before election...
...grimy, normally noisy district. For more than a year now Falls Road has been uncomfortably quiet. One after another Belfast's shipyards and mills have been laying off more & more men, shutting down. Of Belfast's 425,000 souls, 100,000 are on the dole. Pale men in cloth caps lounge in doorways, waiting for the visits of relief workers...
...financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood in Old Bailey, his eyes sharp and penetrating beneath a pushed back wig, suavely questioning, blandly dissecting the answers he received. Swindler Wright grew pale as he realized that at last someone could untangle his involved deceptions. A jury found him guilty, a judge sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. Sharp-eyed Counsel Isaacs saw Wright's hand go to his mouth. He sprang forward, but it was too late. Wright lay dead on the floor...
Unlike the rest of the Rumanian royal family, pale Princess Helen writes no advertising testimonials and gives few interviews. But this last move of buck-toothed King Carol was more than she could bear. To the Daily Mail, cause of her woes, she said...
...does Cardini, "The Suave Deceiver" in RKO vaudeville with the same trick. At one point the chorus parades around a dark stage with long glass tubes of rare gases (neon, argon) exposing them to an electro-magnetic field from time to time so that they light up in weird pale colors (''first time on any stage" I. The behavior of The Most Beautiful Girls In The World is a little subdued this year. Presumably as a result of Mayor "Holy Joe" McKee's theatrical clean-up campaign, even in the big Spirit of the Blue Danube number...