Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sitwell, poet, novelist, playwright, one of the three enfants terribles of present-day English literature (the other two: Brother Sacheverell, Sister Edith) is the eldest son of a baronet, was educated at Eton, served in the War with the Grenadier Guards. Like his brother, his sister, he is tall, pale, has thin lips, restless hands; unassailable socially, he delights in flouting convention. The English Who's Who lists his recreations as: "Regretting the Bourbons, Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other athletic interests...
...talked -rapidly in French, Spanish, Italian, punctuating each touch with the words "et la!" Sometimes "et la!" was a celebration of his own passes, sometimes of Deladrier's or Santelli's; it was a threat, a joke, a warning, a boast, a congratulation. In his pale face, under a streak of hair, like shiny black paint, his eyes flashed; his mouth tipped up at one corner as though in sympathy with the outstretched left arm. Nedo Nadi is the son of Beppe Nadi, who coached every great Italian fencer since Italy became a united kingdom (1868) until recent...
...banker, former partner of super-swindler Clarence Charles Hatry (TIME, Oct. 21, et seq.) has one all sufficient reason for living in Italy: there is no criminal extradition treaty between Italy and Britain. Last week he was more than ever satisfied with his Italian domicile. His four former partners-pale and spectacular Clarence Hatry, stolid Albert Edward Tabor, colorless Edmund Daniels and Charles Graham Dixon-stood at the bar of Old Bailey to be sentenced for forgery, to wit: Swindling nearly $10,000,000 from the British public by borrowing money on forged municipal bonds...
...judge, grim-lipped Sir Horace Edmund Avory, pale and ascetic under his huge wig, was unimpressed. Addressing all four defendants he gazed fixedly at Clarence Hatry, the man who once owned the largest yacht and some of the fastest horses in Britain, whose Mayfair house contained not only a roof-garden swimming pool but also a subcellar bar and taproom labeled "Ye Old Stanhope Arms-Free House...
...Indian medicine-man and the medieval herb-doctor is an intangible dread with which he is regarded by the world at large. This atmosphere of mysticism which surrounds the consulting room erects about the physician an impenetrable barrier which, in the eyes of the layman, places him beyond the pale...