Word: palely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little fan and parasol would be the envy of many a prairie lady back home in Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait Wilson stands with Florence Kling Harding and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, whose short skirt and sorority pin would have mystified many in that quiet company...
From his lawyers Quarry Insull has acquired the habit of chewing sticky Greek candies between puffs on his pale cigar. Just before the verdict was expected he shook hands with Hunter Harness who might soon be escorting him back to the U. S. under guard. Then Presiding Judge Panegyrakis emerged with a fistful of scratch paper on which he had penciled the Court's decision. No light affair, it began with 25 minutes worth of ambiguity, got down to cases only in the last ten minutes, when the Presiding Judge exclaimed: "It is agreed that the man whose extradition...
...Flandin. As a great colonial administrator Premier Sarraut, twice Governor of French Indo-China, spoke to journalists of restoring French prosperity by "putting our colonies to work" and of strengthening the garrisons of France with colonial troops. Two Moroccan regiments were ordered to Lyons, but not without causing the pale eyebrows of General Maxime Weygand to lift. Great General Max, the Army's executive Commander-in-Chief, holds that "in France colonial troops become easy victims of Communism and alcoholism." He announced last week that he will make an inspection tour of Morocco. Promptly the Paris Matin predicted that...
...there last week alert New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ralph W. Barnes found poring over it a sandy-haired twelve-year-old with a great name. The youngster was Vassily ("Vasya") Iosifovich Stalin, in a neat blue double-breasted jacket and a red tie. Close-cropped fair hair, pale face and lively eyes marked Vasya for the son of his late blonde, plump mother rather than of his father, Russia's blue-black-haired Steel...
...from adding a clarion call to the defense of American motherhood and the sanctity of the flat. No doubt, however, McKee's move took Laguardia by surprise, as it is questionable if he even recollects joining Professor Dewey's party, which intends sweeping to power under a flag of pale cerise...