Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesse Jones js huge-6 ft. 3 in. high, with great pale hands, small, blue-greenish eyes that are all green when he is ready to say "No," and a thick thatch of white hair still sprinkled with iron-color. His face can be kind, as he can be; but most times it is the kind of face a man gets who asks himself one practical question through all the hours of his life -a rigid, stern, rocklike face. Sometimes he looks like the Ten Commandments...
William S. Knudsen is grey-haired, bulky, ruddy. Walter Philip Reuther is rufous, pint-sized, pale. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther first knocked their heads together when one worked for General Motors, the other for the C. I. O. autoworkers' union. Frazzled after a tough bout with a union committee in Detroit, G. M.'s Knudsen once glared at Walter Reuther, barked...
...last fortnight, the Oles! rang loud; the band played the bullfighters' cheer song-Diana; even Chucho Solorzano, reigning matador of the season, rose to pay his respects to the honored guest. The hullabaloo was not for Henry Wallace, visiting U. S. ambassador of good will, but dark-eyed, pale-faced Hollywood Starlet Linda Darnell. Linda, cooing contentedly in a seat between Mexican Movie Favorite Fernando Soler and portly Singer Alfonso
...Night at Earl Carroll's (Paramount) concerns operations at Showman Earl Carroll's pale green "theatre restaurant" on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. There is unconsciously aimless comedy by Ken Murray and others, and the Earl Carroll chorus girls strut stiffly about the stage in irrelevant maneuvers involving immense fans and Christmas-tree headgear...
...hurled insults at "silly old Bill Green," president of A. F. of L. He declared: "The labor movement cannot exist or function without confidence on the part of its members, each with the other, confidence that they will associate themselves together. . . ." The next day, jut-jawed, broad face pale, he delivered a bilious soliloquy, kindled bitterness on all sides...