Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalmajor, holding down a job that friends thought should satisfy him for the rest of his life-chief of the Ministry's Organization Department. Apparently he was devoid of ambition, a confirmed bachelor with a ready smile and a fund of smoking car stories. He delighted in large pale cigars and French red wine. He went stag hunting every autumn and celebrated every kill with a carefully chosen dinner. Last year three things happened to change his entire life. To the amazement of social Berlin, confirmed Bachelor von Schleicher married his cousin, became a Generalleutnant, and developed political ambitions...
...huge Olympic Coliseum, with its three flagpoles, 105,000 seats and Olympic torch, the scene of the Xth Olympiad shifted last week to the 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, where 10,000 spectators with Japanese parasols sat in a small concrete stadium looking down at a narrow block of pale green water...
More sensitive than the horses, Dubliners went to some lengths to avoid friction. Pale, plump, plutocratic H. H. the Aga Khan gave his usual trophy for international Army jumping. For years the only time that the strains of "God Save the King" have impinged in public on Free State air has been at the opening of the Dublin Horse Show when the British Army team rides into the ring. Not to abrade further the nerves already rubbed raw by President de Valera's squabble over the land annuities (see col. 2), the British Army team withdrew last week before...
...failed to gain control of the Government, were all that Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher could have hoped for. His own devious plans to rebuild the German army and possibly restore the monarchy are maturing; there is as yet no serious obstruction in sight. Puffing comfortably on a large pale cigar, he admitted a group of correspondents to his office last week and delivered himself of a few random observations. As everyone knows, smiling General von Schleicher has a high opinion of Republican ex-Chancellor Brüning's character and ability. Privately he has no such regard...
Javelin Throw. The Finns, who since 1912 used to win all the distance races at the Olympics, did poorly this year, with pale Paavo Nurmi sitting in the grandstand. Three Finns who were particularly disappointed were the Jarvinen brothers, Matti, Karlo Werner and Akilles. They had often heard stories about the 1906 Olympics from their father, Werner Jarvinen, who won the Greek style discus throw that year at Athens. Matti Jarvinen, spectacled sporting-goods clerk of Davaro, won Finland its first event last week with another implement that old Werner Jarvinen had shown him how to handle. He threw...