Word: palely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waitresses at L'Humanité's peace cocktail party wore neat, black dresses and crisp white aprons. They served only one drink -a pale yellow liquid which tasted vaguely like a martini. About a hundred foreign newspapermen, including only a handful of Americans, showed up at the party on the seventh floor of the building. The official host was stooping, white-haired Marcel Cachin, director of L'Humanité, whose attacks on the U.S. have been among the most violent and slanderous. He greeted U.S. journalists with great cordiality: "How nice of you to come...
...most horrible thing was a little girl, about 13. She stood on the sidewalk with some other kids, just a few yards from the savage fighting. Her nose was running, her flaxen hair was wet and bedraggled, and she had a sore under one of her eyes, which were pale blue and showed no emotion or even comprehension of the scene. With the other children, she was chanting, "Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin...
...same with Washington, or Daniel Boone, or John James Audubon, or Henry Clay. But in Sunday school, he was told of "a Figure for whom was made an infinitely more enormous claim than for any of the others." The picture showed him as "a pale and posturing person with immoderately long, silky hair . . . who clutched a kind of diaphanous drapery gracefully about him" with an expression of "simpering vapidity...
Noting that the New Testament contains no description of Christ's appearance, Devoe insists that it does tell "enough about the manner of his speech and the habits of his days to give us at least the surety that he was not frail, not pale, not piously smirking, not actorishly barbered and finical. He was one who spoke homely and strong...
...this was a pale fight compared to the 1937 game in the Stadium, Harvard, with Vernon Struck, Frank Foley, and Macdonald operating in the backfield, had exploded just once--against Princeton--and seemed doomed to lose to a Yale team which had big fast linemen and a backfield led by All-American Clint Frank...