Word: paler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after the sinking of the 5,051-ton British freighter Clement in the South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge growlers on the foggy way to Greenland, big men on the cold Cape haul-all were nervous on the watch and reminiscent at mess because of a capricious, romantic, dangerous ghost that was out kissing British ships again: the German raider...
...spring. It was still spring late in the afternoon after the sunlight grew even paler and a slightly ribald wind swung in from the sea. The waves piled in on the tide, foamy against the rocks. She walked over the gray-green downs to the bluff. One by one the lobster men putted in toward the harbor in a single snaky line. Later the sim thinned out into a crimson wash in the west. A slight wispy fog made up. As she walked homeward along the shore around the harbor, a moon began to rise. It appeared diffused through...
Meanwhile, Billy was finding himself on interesting terms of intimacy with Carrie. She bugged and kissed him, and then danced around holding him on top of her head. When Billy came back, Vag noticed be looked a little paler than before, and he munched his wiener more thoughtfully. But he seemed to want to go on, so Vag pushed over toward the elephants...
...about Herr Hitler, she reportedly mentioned the duty-free frocks to customs officials. Indicted as smugglers. Burns, Mrs. Lauer and Chapereau pleaded guilty, Jack Benny, another friend, did not. Last week in Manhattan, when a Federal judge said, "a year and a day in prison," George ("Nat") Burns turned paler than a radio gag. But the judge proceeded: "I shall suspend execution of sentence during good behavior." Upshot was that on Gracie's $4.885 worth of jewels (for which her husband paid $2,000, and which she kept), George paid $8,000 fine, duty and penalties...
Hopkins. No paler, no more haggard than usual, Harry Hopkins stepped to the witness chair knowing that, unlike Frankfurter and Murphy, he was going to receive a going-over. With an air of deliberate calm he lit cigaret after cigaret; inhaled deeply; exhaled slowly; looked saturninely at his questioners from lowered brows; stroked his jaw; hunched his shoulders; thrust out his chin-a homely figure...