Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pale, pop-eyed Erik Berggreen stood at the bar of a Swedish court last week charged with robbery, to wit: the theft of a number of watches, pieces of jewelry. As the evidence was reported, Swedish travelers for the past six months on the crack Norrland Express, between Stockholm and Narvik in Norway, tingled at the thought that they had been riding on a train driven not only by a thief, but by a madman...
...Conservative Party has waited months. The MacDonald Labor Cabinet had just been impressively defeated in the House of Commons by a vote of 282 to 249. Looking across at the Government Bench, Conservative Baldwin could see that the color had left Scot MacDonald's cheeks. He was ashen pale. With what words would Mr. Baldwin attempt, as leader of the Opposition, to force the Prime Minister to resign...
About pascin personally there was very little exquisite or distinguished. He was a soft, pale man, sensual and abnormally sensitive, who abhorred fresh air, never rose till the afternoon, occasionally shaved about 7 o'clock. He was a dipsomaniac. His virtues were his amiability, his lack of personal vanity. He made and kept innumerable friends: at his studio 30 to 40 friends gathered daily to chat while he painted; often he would gather a group of 20, men, women and children, and take them with him to some watering place for weeks at a time...
General Damaso Berenguer y Fuste, bull-necked Prime Minister of Spain, stepped from his private office last week, waved an amiable plump hand at a group of reporters whom he knew personally, advanced with his brother and personal adjutant, Luis Berenguer y Fuste, toward the elevator. A pale young man by the name of Joaquin Llizo pulled a small pistol from his pocket, deliberately fired one shot into the ceiling. One of the duties of a Spanish Prime Minister's adjutant is wrestling with would-be assassins. Adjutant Berenguer promptly grappled with Pistoleer Llizo. General Berenguer spun...
...correspondence is a curious example of purely epistolary courtship. "I'm so pale when I'm off stage and rouge becomes me, and I know I shall have to take to it if I consent to let you see me," wrote Miss Terry at the outset. Later she said: "I didn't like you when you first wrote to me. I thought you unkind and exceedingly stiff and prim." In 1896 when Shaw was beginning to be recognized as a playwright Miss Terry determined to call on him, but found he was in conference with Sir Henry...