Word: palely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swearing in Halifax last week, an Englishman six ft. two in. tall, pale and of distinguished bearing, assumed the office of Governor General of the Dominion of Canada, to which he was appointed two months ago (TIME...
Last week Fortnum & Mason did what few great London shops have done: opened a store in Manhattan. The building is seven stories of pink brick with a blue-green base. Its façade and ground floor are a copy of the London shop. Walls and counters are of pale waxed pine, lined with long rows of bottles and preserved goods from all over the world, many painted in pastel shades. Smooth salesmen in morning coats and striped trousers greet the visitors. Much has been done to preserve the British tradition. On exhibit at last week's opening...
...true, too true, about the futility of it all. Civilization, gilding the pale flower of decadence, leaves its enervated Youth to weave with whitened fingers the social daisy chain in which he must finally strangle. However, the Way toward regeneration still lies open; it all comes down to a question of values. While the "Princeton Manner", that debutante manna, may make idols of the sad young man, the "Princetonian" advises, and rightly so, that a veneer is but a veneer, and that a zest, an enthusiasm, that indefinable "joi de vivre", is, after all, the requisite for achievement. When that...
...Tommy Loughran, limber, cautious, dexterous Philadelphia heavyweight: a ten-round fight with Ernie Schaaf, pale protege of Jack Sharkey. Two years ago Sharkey knocked out Loughran. Last week Sharkey said: "If Loughran beats Schaaf, I'll fight him again...
...present vehicle at the Met may forget that she plays her role deftly and sincerely, they can never forget her beauty. She moves through the picture with a sort of child-like wonder written on her face; she strings a "line" beside which all other feminine wiles pale into insignificance; she speaks in a voice of a quality rarely found in the young actresses of today...