Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snowball thrown at a silk hat. The spirit that puts him over is vindictive, retaliatory. Another Senator might get Federal projects, administrative favor, post offices and pork barrel favor for Nebraska, but the State is contemptuous of these. For nearly two decades Norris has kept Nebraska beyond the pale of Federal favor, but his people consider him worth the price. George Norris is the burr Nebraska delights in putting under the Eastern saddle. He is the reprisal for all the jokes of vaudevillists, the caricatures of cartoonists and the jibes of humorists that have come out of the East...
...that Madrid thought Alfonso was signing his abdication, the round Plaza del Oriente in front of the Royal Palace in Madrid was kept clear by police and mounted Civil Guards. Inside, pale, sober Alfonso XIII scratched busily at his manifesto with a gold pen. With a scrawl of his signature he rose, handed the paper to Count de Romanones, "richest man in Spain," until that morning Royalist Minister of State. Said Alfonso to the Count...
...where the Royal car, its white blinds drawn, stood coupled to a puffing locomotive. Queen Victoria Eugenie and her children descended to the Escorial crypt where lie the bones of the Kings and Queens of Spain. They prayed before their ancestors' tombs. Then they entered the train. So deathly pale was the Prince of the Asturias that he had to be lifted into the car. Prince Jaime, the second son, six feet tall but born deaf and dumb, babbled pitifully. Victoria Eugenie sobbed...
...Summer Term of '93 a bolt from the blue flashed down on Oxford. . . . Dons and undergraduates stood around, rather pale, discussing nothing but it. Whence came it, this meteorite? From Paris. ... Its aim? To do a series of 24 portraits in lithograph. . . . He was 21 years old. He wore spectacles that flashed more than any pair ever seen. He was a wit. He was brimful of ideas. He knew Whistler. He knew Edmond de Goncourt. He knew everyone in Paris. He knew them all by heart. He was Paris in Oxford...
Last week's egg, pale green and about 4 in. long, lay in a special incubator while Dr. Mann hoped. Soon, forth should come a white-downed condor chick...