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Word: palely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...juvenile officer and a welfare worker decided that Mrs. Erne Crawford was fit to mother the baby boy whom she first swore a brindle dog dropped at her Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Holy Moses (Cont'd) | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Recuperated from a five-month illness during which he underwent three operations for an intestinal ailment, pale Democratic Boss Thomas J. ("Tom") Fendergast trudged out of Kansas City's Menorah Hospital 65 Ib. lighter than when he entered. Present weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...will like. So far she has learned only two words of English, 'Be Careful!,' and she addresses them to her chauffeur every time she goes out. She and the Sultan thought at first that it must be fright at your terrible traffic which made English girls so pale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELANGOR: Be Carejul! | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...they are pressing on to demand pensions for every member, and for their families, no matter when required. Beside these mammoth treasury raids, unhesitatingly made in times of severe economic distress, the petty steals in disability pensions which produced such paradoxes as football players drawing total disability pay become pale and unimportant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 10/28/1936 | See Source »

...homely as a hedgehog," said this frank reader, "my only good feature being my blue eyes. . . . Don't you think it would be a feather in your cap if you could be the one who changed this very ugly duckling into even a pale pink swan? If you have any of Pygmalion in you, please be a sport and help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barbara's Beautification | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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