Word: pales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President glared at Assassin as might lion at weasel. How to make the pale but unflinching weasel squeak...
...latter thus describes an encounter with the Monk, who had been summoned to answer to the Cabinet for his gross immorality. "He ran his pale eyes over me," declared Stolypin, "mumbled mysterious and inarticulate words from the Scriptures, made strange movements with his hands, and I began to feel an indescribable loathing for this vermin sitting opposite me. Still I did realize that the man possessed great hypnotic power, which was beginning to produce a fairly strong moral impression on me. ... I was able to pull myself together...
...slight, blonde English girl with long legs and pale, wistful eyes, moved quickly around a tennis court in Auteuil trying to return the shots that Helen Wills sent at her. The English girl's name was Eileen Bennett and she was steady and careful and did well though it was clear to her and to everyone that she had no chance. They were playing on a hard court for the championship of France and it was well known that Helen Wills wanted to win since she had come to Auteuil for that purpose. Once the English girl broke through...
...class about to complete their undergraduate work. The feeling of unmixed relief that characterizes the divisional-freed Senior, the desire to be up and away as soon as possible, is metamorphosed by the turning of a year or two into an active regret for the cloister's pale, an immediate concern with the functions of the College, its activities, its winning football teams...
...Movies. Philip Dunning, who was supposed to have had an important part in the writing of the raucous and exciting Broadway, is billed also as the co-author of this thing. The discrepancy between his two brain children is not nice to contemplate. The second is about a pale and gawky elf who wins a scenario-writing prize, comes to Hollywood, is besieged by unscrupulous women who want him to get them in the movies and is finally permitted to claim the hand of his own true sweetheart. Those in whom a severe spanking might cause concussion of the brain...