Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubborn as King Canute, defiant as Joshua, brave as Horatius he stood there a true son of the-British bulldog. The Brighton Express roared down at him 50 m.p.h., came to a halt with great screaming of brakes. Out tumbled the engineer, pale beneath the grease on his face...
Even some educators have a persistent mistrust of academic work as a main college pursuit, as a sufficient and dominating undergraduate discipline. They are, perhaps not always consciously, afraid that "the native hue of resolution" will be "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Such an attitude in the world at large is unfortunate; among educators it is inexcusable...
...Beebe, shouting: "It varies from pale blue to pale green. But all on the very pale side. No deep tone. It must be the normal luminescence of the creatures...
...Next pale, white-powdered Empress Nagako (who has borne only daughters) received bronzed Conqueror Honjo in private audience, a rare honor for a man.* Their Majesties then jointly had the "Devil Tycoon"? to lunch. Straight from their Royal Palace he drove to an ugly alley, so narrow that his limousine could not enter. Alighting amid frenzied cries of Banzai! he squeezed down the alley to his tiny, Spartan home...
...workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco and are sometimes cited as the first users of rubber. The tiger looks more like a pale green toad with a semi-human crested head making a horrid bawling grimace. It is about the size of a big apple, with holes in the topknot and sides, apparently for use as an ornament. Last week jade experts swarmed around the toad-tiger...