Word: palely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franco had ten-year-old Juan Carlos, Prince of the Asturias, to lunch. The pale, quick-witted prince, son of exiled Pretender Don Juan (now in Portugal), is being educated in Spain under Franco's protection, looking toward an eventual restoration of the monarchy. Franco called the princeling "Alteza" (Highness). Don Juan, with Bourbon pride, called the Generalissimo merely "General...
...name "Marianne" sounds so youthful that maybe some people were as surprised as I to see a lady of some fifty-odd. She didn't even look like a poet. She had a quiet, pale face which looked as if maybe it was a little frightened by the large, black, sawed-off witch's cap she was wearing. There was appropriate white lace at her collar and cuffs...
...bustling seventh-floor newsroom of the New York Daily News, a shirt-sleeved copyreader, pale-faced under the fluorescent lights, strove for a headline that would tell a crime story. When he had one that suited him, he flipped it over to the man in the "slot" of the horseshoe-shaped copy desk. It read...
...miles and $17,000 to Pale Alto, California, but the Band may be playing there come next September 24 and The Harvard-Stanford football game...
...theater's first personality. The theater's current first lady is a kind of composite of Helen Hayes, Katharine Cornell, Judith Anderson, Lynn Fontanne-and Tallulah. But Tallulah does not fit neatly into a category, and other ladies of the stage, whatever their virtues as actresses, pale beside her as stars pale when a bonfire is lighted...