Word: palely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...65th year, with pneumonia just behind him, with his doctors optimistic but warning that the Royal heart is weak, George V stood smiling and puffing in the Royal Box as the horses lined up, sucking his favorite long pale weed with relish...
...Irish mother. He went to Queen's College, Oxford, thence to London where he became organist in St. James's Church in Piccadilly. It was as an organist that he came to the U. S. in 1905, 23 then and looking much as he does now-slender, pale-blue-eyed, seraphically blond. He played for three years at St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan, saved his money, returned to Europe. His ambition was, and always had been, to conduct. So he hired orchestras, got his experience that way. In Paris a group of Cincinnatians heard...
Punching one of the pale buttons on his big dark desk, II Duce dictated to the secretary who hurried in, the gist of what newsorgans would say next day all over Italy. With this chore attended to the Dictator ate his frugal lunch, returned to his office, locked the door. Then for a time passers-by heard the wild, crashing strains of the Mussolini violin?his "Wooden Woman" as the instrument is called in the argot of the populace...
...revolutionists but not an active revolutionist himself, Author Gorki has written not propaganda but a chronicle of the Russian intellectuals. The scene is laid in Russia of some 30 years back; the story ends at the time of the late Tsar's coronation. Hero Clim Samghin is a pale, near-sighted youth, long on brains, short on emotions, whose inamorata says to him: "You're slippery. . . . And you have no words which are dear to you." Clim is a precocious but unattractive child, becomes a clever but unattractive young man. He goes to the university at St. Petersburg...
...employer.* Outstanding among the gardeners was Miss Marie L. Constable's able, bushy-mustached James Stuart. He it was who arranged, on a plot of approximately 600 sq. ft., Miss Constable's breathtaking Yellow Garden which won the large silver cup presented by the Royal Horticultural Society. Pale ferns, towering yellow acacias and mimosas hung over a narrow path, accented with deep orange clumps of a kind of South African flowering pineapple, professionally known as imantophyllum, more popularly Clivia...