Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replying for Mr. Snowden, who sat imperturbable with a pale smile on his thin lips, Laborite Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence exulted...
...Cinema's" ceiling the first Kent mural, but the theatre's proprietors declare that it is the largest single canvas in the world-6,400 sq. ft. in area, almost three times the size of Tintoretto's "Paradise" walls in the Palace of the Doges.* Pale monumental figures float upon it among brilliant clouds and stars. while a vivid comet's tail streaks across from projection box to screen. Artist Kent, assisted by Jo Mielziner and ten others, worked five months on the canvas...
Meanwhile in Los Angeles was occurring the last act of a newspaper racket story which made the petty taxing of Chicago brothel keepers pale into insignificance. Morris Lavine, ace reporter of the Los Angeles Examiner, was convicted of attempting to extort $75,000 in the course of a second expose of the Julian Petroleum Corp. scandal...
...pale colors was the brilliance of the men's court dress. Officials and officers wore scarlet coats, heavily embroidered with gold, and black trousers with a gold stripe on each side. Others, of the Royal Guard, wore gold helmets with high crests of white plumes. Still others were in black satin knee breeches and embroidered black coats...
Burrrrzipppp! The clerk touched an electric key, and, exactly like a U. S. movie ticket machine, the tote poked out a ticket for Suada, value of one guinea. Fingering this novel pasteboard, puffing his pale Havana, George V walked back to the Royal Box with Suada's owner, his son-in-law, the spidery-limbed Earl of Harewood, spouse of Princess Mary. In the fourth race Royalty's loping Suada was almost lost among the last of the also-rans, and lost with it was the King's guinea. A genial loser, George V discreetly made known that...