Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although connoisseurs of fine motion pictures are going pale at the spectacle of J. Arthur Rank selling his artistic virtue to Hollywood's questionable standards, they may gain some encouragement from seeing our better producers learning a few things from those English. Except for the lack of a leading actress who is not a nonentity, "The Ghest and Mrs. Muir" might very well be one of the better imports seen around the Exeter Theater, and it is just possible that the American public will take this rare nectar willingly. Rex Harrison could easily be addressing the producer of the picture...
Fear and excitement may make a man blush, sweat, turn pale, run a high blood pressure or faint-or he may just keep a poker face. But under emotional stress, no man, however impassive, can keep his finger tips from palpitating. To A.M.A. conventioneers two young Tulane Medical School doctors exhibited a machine that indicates the state of a man's emotions by "listening" to his finger tips...
Despite Wallace Stegner's recent generalization that a college literary magazine is "not good enough for the really good writer in any university," the Commencement issue of The Advocate displays an assemblage of poetry and prose that would grace the pages of any periodical between here and Pale Alto, California...
...their lungs against the deafening sound of squally water and orchestral fortissimo. To balance such experiments, which smack of artiness, Renoir has thrown in some solid domestic naturalism and an excellently staged Coast Guardsmen's dance. Best of all, he has eloquently suited the pale visual tone of the film to the pale air, sea and sand of the locale and to the story's mood of blindness, ambiquity and cryptic strain...
...foamed ... on every street. . . . Spring had tossed her pale green garments on every branch. . . . Long beams of sun fell across [Frank Clair's] thin white hands [which] lay on his coat, still, flaccid. . . . His eyes moved too slowly in their pits of dark shadow...