Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show. A series of dirty jokes, very old, very stupid, are used to pass the time while more and more gorgeous settings are being made ready. Rousing climax of this element in the entertainment comes when five tons of chromium are lowered and a host of pretty girls in pale green are set to dancing before it. At another time, scores of undressed dancers with naked heels flash between glimmering crystal scimitars to Ravel's throbbing Bolero. There is also a "pageant of the ages" during which a gigantic papier-mache dinosaur lumbers across with a lady in its mouth...
That afternoon Judge Barnhill, his pale face grave as the Law, his voice almost a whisper, his hands trembling, read his penalties. Col. Lea's wife gripped her husband's hand so tightly that her knuckles were white. Their daughter, Mary Louise, 7, who had spent the weeks romping through the court room, sat quietly next to him, looking scared. For Col. Lea the Judge ordered imprisonment for from six to ten years. The Colonel paled, then flushed, but his lips were motionless. His wife nearly sobbed. When Luke Lea Jr. heard he had been fined...
...expert golfer, Funnyman Hardy has won 24 cups and two gold medals; nonetheless, he is fat and soft-looking. Laurel is thin and pale, speaks with a low-grade London accent. Funnyman Laurel seems to be the more stupid of the two, but not by very much. In Pardon Us, the teacher in the prison school asks him how many times 3 goes into 9. Laurel's answer: "Three times-and two left over." Hardy's answer: "He's wrong-there's only one left over...
...Pale, lantern-jawed Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, plump German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, and millions of swarming grasshoppers descended upon Rome last week. In the Campagna frightened peasants set fire to their fields as black clouds of the insects dropped from the sky, ate wheatfields to the dust and vineyards bare to the stalks, then hopped and whirred away. Gardens were ruined in the city. Streets, roofs and windows were gummy with grasshopper bodies and their brown "tobacco juice...
Hang Brüning! The absence in London of Germany's new Iron Chancellor, pale, nasal Heinrich Brüning, did him no good with German extremists. While the London conference was still in progress, Nationalists streamed into a Berlin hall to hear inflammatory speeches by Deputy Paul Bang (Finance Minister in the brief sinister Kapp "Putsch" government) and Alfred Hugenberg's disciple, Fritz Kleiner. Boomed Bang...