Word: palely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...risque (the cynic likes a bawdy joke as well as do the home folks); and had been proposed for various famed actresses (Jeanne Eagels, et al). Miram Hopkins† finally got the part and did well enough with it; probably better than the part deserved For the play was pale. To be sure Miss Hopkins was called upon to disrobe almost constantly; but that sort of thing can go only so far. She played the part of a music hall dancer who contrived to get herself adopted by a Baroness in order to marry a wealthy English youth. Five minutes...
...haughty redskin brothers, to the haughty strong Sioux nation, with his wife and son beside him, with big medicine in his pocket, came the pale-Wamblee-Tokaha,* New White Chief and High Protector-otherwise Calvin Coolidge, 29th U. S. President, but first President ever to visit any Amerindians on one of the reservations set aside for them by their Caucasian conquerors...
Potter entered his first major tournament last week, the Long Island Open. Spectators noted the colossal pair of pale grey plus fours in which his nether portions were encased. When the first 18 was over, Potter had scored 67, five under par, record breaking for the difficult No. 4 course at Salisbury Country Club. He drove a 310-yard green...
There she met a Polish artist, Count Markievicz. He was attracted perhaps by her pale, fragile beauty, perhaps by the twinkling fire in her blue eyes. They married?Irishwoman and Pole?uniting in a miniature alliance the characteristics of their irrepressible, astounding peoples...
Billy was drawing the window curtains apart and asking Dr. Watson if he wanted to see the people across the street who were watching them. "Watson had taken a step forward when the bedroom door opened, and the long, thin form of Holmes emerged, his face pale and drawn, but his step and bearing as active as ever. With a single spring he was at the window, and had drawn the blind once more...