Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Florence Bankhead, stepmother of Tallulah. wife of the Speaker of the House, admitted putting finishing touches on the Howard Chandler Christy portrait of her which hangs in the Bankhead apartment. Said she: "I added lipstick. The lips were too pale...
Castor oil used to be of little use in paint and varnish making because it was sticky and slow to dry. In recent years chemists have found that they could "dehydrate" castor oil (remove some of the chemical components in the form of water), leaving a pale oil which dries to a firm film, keeps its pale color even after long exposure. Experiments under way in Texas show that castor plants can be successfully grown...
...those terms last week President Roosevelt defined a good peace. He spoke in a week in which, in Finland, peace had been made that U. S. opinion condemned as bad. It was a week when a hearty and smiling Mussolini conferred with a pale Adolf Hitler in a village in the foothills of the Alps, when from Berlin came stories that Russia would join the Axis, and when the shape of some vast peace move-a super-Munich that would be for all Europe what Munich was for Czecho-Slovakia-loomed in the background of dispatches...
...domineering dictators, onetime partners in aggression, who swore less than a year ago a rigid "pact of iron" to stand together in war as well as peace, sat down to talk for two hours and twelve minutes. Then, after a cordial good-by-Mussolini smiling, Hitler pale-they hurried back to their capitals...
...album of playing in the true Chicago tradition. More than that, it can get a sense of jazz as it is really played at late-of-night sessions in out of the way bistros and honky-tonks. This is great jazz--a reproduction so accurate as to make seem pale pink by comparison any of the series previously done by HRS, Victor; or Commodore Record Shop. As a matter of fact, Commodore ran and ad in which it said that this was the "greatest album in the history of jazz" and surpassed by far anything it or anyone else...