Word: paleness
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...Cuban Senate it.will be inscribed "President Franklin D. Roosevelt-Author of the Doctrine Good Neighbor." Painter of many a Cuban notable, Dr. Valderrama has developed a theory that every man has his special color, thinks the color of heavy-featured Cuban President Laredo Bru is pálido (pale), the color of swarthy, hard-hitting Colonel Batista is blanco-rojo, or white-red. Last week Dr. Valderrama got his first sitting at the White House. Working with a box of pastel crayons open before him while a Viennese etcher made pencil sketches and the President talked, smoked, worked over...
...found myself involuntarily saying again and again as I walked the streets: 'This is Russia, and not Berlin!' The shabbiness of the clothing suggests it, the drabness of life; the high boots worn by so many women; the pale, unhealthy color as well as the gloomy sombreness of the masses...
...slightest sign of bullet marks on or in Unity's head. "The only thing wrong with her head is that it is turned!" shrugged M. Micouleau after kindly British tars had carried Unity safely aboard a Channel packet while her mother held her hand. She looked pale, dull-eyed and tottery but presently sat up, laughed and chattered with her mother...
...gaunt, dark-eyed man in a skullcap and ermine-trimmed robe, Franklin Roosevelt had written a letter for Christmas, remembering perhaps how that man's long pale hands had twisted with painful earnestness when they talked together of world peace three years...
...raffish crew of old pals marched up to the witness chair, testified, marched down again while Lepke sat in silence with no sign of expression on his lumpish face. Prison-pale were some of the witnesses. Ten of the 23 for the Government were felons, including: paunchy Yasha Katzenberg, described by the League of Nations as an "international menace," organizer of a $10,000,000 dope ring into which, he said Lepke muscled; Benny Schisoff, Coney Island frozen-custard man, implicated in the racket but free on a suspended sentence; John McAdams, Customs sergeant who accepted bribes to let trunkloads...