Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That first winter was a hard one: no income and no job. But he haunted the public library, and stood in the gallery to hear Edwin Booth play Shakespeare. "Outwardly seedy, hungry, pale and lonely, I inhabited palaces and spoke with kings." When his money was just about gone he got a job lecturing at the Boston School of Oratory, met literary tycoons, got another job reviewing books for the august Transcript. But even after he had become an accepted shepherd on Boston's Mt. Parnassus Garland was a Western boy, had more than a tinge of the Western radical...
From British India will come 22 Hindus, 15 Moslems, two Sikhs, a Parsee, a Buddhist, a Christian. Socially the delegates range from the pale and paunchy Aga Khan, smart racehorse breeder and spiritual head of Ismaili Moslems (so holy that priests peddle his used bath water), to lowly Rio Bahadur-Rettamalle Sprinivasan Avargal, representative of Indian "untouchables." Sure defenders of the most conservative British position at the conference will be ten ruling princes of Indian native states. Well do they know that the existence of their realms, possibly their own existence, is dependent on Britain's maintaining a strong...
...Scullin was in Ceylon en route to the Imperial Conference at London. While his ship coaled in teeming Colombo he decided to brave the sunbeams, see the town. Cheerfully he advanced down the quay escorted by punctilious officials (Ceylon is British) then suddenly turned ashen pale, tottered, collapsed in a sprawling faint...
...could chill the blood of Budapest's bourgeoisie as quickly. Eleven years have passed since the pale violet-scented clerk Albert Cohen, Bela Kun in Hungarian, ruled Budapest for 133 bloody days, but nursemaids still frighten children with lurid tales of gutters red with blood, nuns and countesses falling before his firing squads, rich landowners tortured to death. Since his downfall in 1919 Bela Kun has held a minor office in Moscow's Foreign Propaganda bureau. He has appeared, plump, ugly flashily dressed, smelling of wood violet, in Portugal and Vienna only to be hustled...
...many years Sigmund Freud of Vienna has studied the tortuous ways of the unconscious mind. Moving his pale hands nervously about among the green pagan gods, the bronzes, the bizarre masks which cover the top of his massive desk at his home, he has written the testament of the psychoanalysts. This week in recognition of his lifelong work, he will receive the Goethe prize given by the German City of Frankfurt. The award is especially appropriate for Dr. Freud. Some 50 years ago, Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which...