Word: pales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death. But in Kristin Lavransdatter the heroine, for such she is, glows in all the golden vitality appropriate to a Viking female, and her man is a pagan philanderer; in The Master Ingunn, the heroine- by-courtesy, loses her pale beauty, though her master is a devoted and gentle husband...
...tall, pale, ill-shaped scoundrel, with scrawny neck and spindly legs. His body was very hairy, and on that score, in his foppishness, he was very sensitive. Whoever mentioned a goat in his presence he butchered incontinently. His face was naturally ugly. Nonetheless he practiced grimaces before mirrors to achieve an awful, imperious scowl...
Myron Timothy Herrick, beloved and Francophile U. S. Ambassador to France, sailed from Manhattan last week?as usual on the French Liner Isle de France? to resume his post in Paris. Pale, he had just recovered from one more severe illness at his home in Chagrin Falls, near Cleveland...
Today the round face of the "German Lloyd George" is not ruddy with noontime beer and midnight champagne, but pale. He may eat only sparingly of dietetic food prepared by a special cook; and every evening he is bundled off to early bed by an efficient, uncompromising trained nurse. Recently it has even been noticed that Dr. Stresemann's personal physician is always closeted with him privily for five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute...
Preserved Sloth. Perhaps 1,000,000 years ago, certainly 500,000, a dumpy, pale yellow ground sloth, 8 feet long from its small head to its thick tail, lumbered terrorized near what is now El Paso, Texas. Some predatory beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger. The sloth was a plant-eating animal with soft teeth and did not know how to fight. So it could only lope towards a hole it knew. It reached the hole, scrambled over the ledge, fell 100 feet to the bottom. Bats who mat> the place their perch fluttered and squeaked fearfully...