Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position of considerable importance is a picture of a "Madonna and Child" from the school of Giovanni Bellini. The Madonna wears a red gown, brilliant blue mantle, and luminous silvery white hood. The drapery of the background is bright yellow green. The sky on the left is pale blue, and the rocks neutral brown. The parapet is a dark red brown; the book is red. On the parapet is the signature: Ioannes Bellinvs...
Eugene (English for Jeno) Ormandy arrived in the U. S. ten years ago for a concert tour, but his manager failed him and he took the only job he could find- violinist in Manhattan's Capitol Theatre orchestra. One day the conductor was taken suddenly ill and the pale young Hungarian led the orchestra without a score on a few hours' notice. Another ailing conductor gave Eugene Ormandy his big chance last week: Arturo Toscanini was unable to keep his engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra because of arm neuritis. Illustrious conductors are difficult to obtain on short notice...
...often-threatened dog; it impressed into service arguments which are, to say the lest, doubtful. Nevertheless, it was politically wise for the CRIMSON to speak in the year Harvard won just as loudly as it has spoken in years when the Army has colored the Stadium with a pale pink. It would have been hypocritical to do otherwise...
Tongking and Annam are ruled today as they were 400 years ago, by pale, effete coral-and-jade buttoned mandarins, kept in power by French rifles. After the War thousands of native Tongkingese troops went back to their country with new ideas of democracy. Republican and Communist ideas have seeped south from China proper. Rebellion began against the autocratic power of the mandarins some years ago, became a rebellion against France. First shots were fired more than two years ago when an Annamite garrison at Yen Bay on the China frontier mutinied and killed their French officers. Since then secret...
...struggles of the damned springs Fashion, full-armed, and Gossip, first instruments of human culture and advancement. That these necessities have found a spokesman on Beacon Hill is a subject for congratulation. Such literature flowers from the good sub-soil of snobbery, without which no society could exist, a pale flower, but unquestionably an orchid...