Word: pales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permits to emigrate were issued to palefaced [Japanese] town residents incapable of handling anything heavier than pens and pencils. . . . The authorities are very strict in granting permits only to those who can stand the comparatively hard labor involved by work on farms." Clearly this astute policy keeps pesky little "pale faces" off Brazilian streets where they might cause resentment, insures a pleasant welcome and gainful employment to big, brown, burly Japs willing to work and multiply in rustic obscurity...
...Pale, sharp-featured, Cineman Fox plasters his thin hair over his head to make it reach as far as possible. With a similar objective, but with greater success, he has recently expanded with purchase after purchase his enormous business organization. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, in 1879, he came, a small boy, to Manhattan's East Side, there peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were...
Because Geraldine Farrar (first singer to have her own permanent dressing-room) no longer sings in opera, because she is no longer the black-eyed, hoydenish Carmen or the pale, forsaken Butterfly, there is a tendency for many to regard her as a singer of bygone days. That Farrar still sings, however, that she still pursues an active career was proved by last week's account of a season's stewardship. She has covered a 21,000-mile concert tour which began in Manhattan, went through Canadian cities, through Manhattan again to Chicago, the Pacific Coast, back through the South...
Less important than Babbitt or Arrowsmith, kinder and more accurate than Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth is as shrewd a piece of reporting as any of the earlier volumes. No scoop, it has a pale prelude in Tarkington's Plutocrat, but Dodsworth is the exhaustive definitive edition...
...Xansen, was Norway's premier bridesmaid. The others: Swedish, Elsa Steuch, Alfhild Ekelund, Madeleine Carleson; Norwegian, Ranghild Fearnley, Elizabeth Broch. Wedel Jarlsberg. Froken Jarlsberg is the daughter of the great Court Chamberlain, and Froken Ekelund's father was the late fabulously rich Swedish industrialist. Gunnar Ekelund. The pale and puffy blue stuff of which all eight dresses were made was the gift of Princess Martha, but the dressmaking was not contracted or paid...