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According to Hillel society members, Brickmen entered the building at 5 Bry- ant Street and came up the stairs past Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond and two Hillel officers who were talking together in a second floor room. Rabbi Zigmond said that he noticed Brickman was "quite pale." Brickman said that he was going to use the bathroom...
Neither do U.S. readers, to most of whom the word "poet" still carries a faint suggestion of pale hands, purple passions and flowing ties. They understand what he writes-or understand enough of it to like what they understand. They find his dialogue poems as invigorating as a good argument, his lyrics as engaging, sometimes as magical, as Mother Goose. In a literary age so preoccupied with self-expression that it sometimes seems intent on making the reader feel stupid, Robert Frost has won him by treating him as an equal...
...Langer's voice was growing hoarse, and his face pale and haggard. By 5 o'clock he was in obvious distress. Humphrey, fresh and trim after a midnight shower and shave, sidled up to him. "I can stay until 6 o'clock," hissed Langer. "Go get some sleep...
...bound liner, were flying him back from Gibraltar. Outside the House of Commons, hundreds watched the arrival of the invalids. Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps and Hugh Dalton were brought back from rest cures, R. W. G. Mackay from a hospital. Thomas Hubbard, awaiting an operation, turned up, pale and haggard, with two attending doctors. J. P. W. Mallalieu, who had been suffering from shingles, afterwards wrote: "Medical science is wonderful. First it was deep X rays. Then it was penicillin. Now it's divisions in the House of Commons." The sound of the division bells, he said...
...first ship-christening, pretty Mrs. Alben Berkley smashed the bottle against the new luxury liner President Jackson with a right good will, grimaced good-naturedly as the champagne showered over her pale blue dress...