Word: pales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father Tacchi-Venturi, upon raising his eyes from his papers, saw a pale, demented face and a hand which grasped a slender, dagger-like paper knife. Quick, the assassin sprang. Quicker, the Jesuit dodged. As a result the knife barely lacerated the neck skin of Father Tacchi-Venturi. Meanwhile the sleepy porter had valorously collared Signor De Angelis...
Father Burns was pale and nervous now, fidgeting with his grey moustache. Without waiting to be asked, he burst...
...third edition of Child's "II Pesceballo" that is on exhibition. It is issued on a pale green printed cover, bearing the title and imprint "Cambridge Printed at the Riverside Press, 1802." The first and second editions were issued as a stitched pamphlet, without a cover, and the first edition contains several misprints...
...royal Robing Room, at Westminster, His Majesty donned once more "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Within the great Gothic hall of the House of Lords, Edward of Wales had already bowed to the empty Throne and "taken his place beside it. Through ancient stained glass, pale rays of daylight sifted. The Peers & Bishops sat robed and waiting. Justices were capped by wigs as big as beehives. Peeresses, crowding the gallery, wore again the flexible, diamond-studded bandeaux first introduced last year to replace old-fashioned tiaras...
...country's tobacco tax bill for 1927, as reported by the Government, was $387,427,881, of which $291,620,773 came from the little pale blue portraits of De Witt Clinton on the internal revenue stamps of cigaret packages...