Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular sensation during the booming 1920s was Colonel Percy Fawcett, English explorer who, with his son Jack, tried to find "the Lost Atlantis" in the Brazilian wilderness. They disappeared. Recently Brazilian reporter Edmar Morel returned to civilization with a ghost-pale savage named Dulipé, who he claimed was Jack Fawcett's son by a Kurikuro Indian woman. Last week a picture of Morel and Dulipé (see cut) reached the U.S. As photographed, Dulipé has all the characteristics of an albino, a not uncommon freak among South American Indians...
Just after noon on the second day a 20-year-old Austrian lieutenant stumbled from a cellar, surrendered the last organized remnant of Germans, exhausted, grimy, self-dubbed Kriegsverlängerer (war prolongers). From other, forgotten basements crawled pale, cadaverous, smelly, lice-ridden villagers. For weeks they had lived underground on popcorn, dried beans and water; now, amid the ruins of their homes, they cackled with hysterical relief...
Died. Marvin Hunter McIntyre, 65, secretary to the President since 1933; after long ill health; in Washington. Frail, pale, poker-playing, close-harmonizing McIntyre worked as a reporter before he joined the Navy Department as a public-relations man in 1918 and met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. McIntyre was business manager of F.D.R.'s 1932 campaign, was thereafter rewarded with his post as the White House's special lobbyist, buffer and public-relations man. For the next eleven years he racked his wraithlike body with an average of 270 daily phone conversations, numberless face...
...whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling...
...soul.... I like to think that on the morning of January the first, in the year 2000, mankind will be free to . . . rise from its knees and look about it for some other, and perhaps more rational, form of faith. I like also to think that ... in the great pale platitude of the meantime, there will be, as hitherto, a few . . . people likely to read ... the works of Lytton Strachey...