Word: palled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile a sudden pall had settled on the convention. By law the roll had to be called of the 32,075 county committeemen authorized to make the nomination...
...time is during some future European war. Scientific murder is perfected now. Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce. Beneath this pall the long entrenched lines, locked together, writhe and push. Should the westerly line crack, the alien hordes will roar through, flood the lands beyond with death or with their super-mechanized civilization worse than death...
...night that she was to announce her betrothal to a rich and eminently eligible young man, Don Slocum appeared at her fancy dress ball clad as Mickey Mouse. After threatening to shoot her he lost his nerve, shot himself. His dark and fantastic disguise made a derisive pall. Miss Schaeffer was not particularly upset...
...which the presentation of the "Philoctetes" may have, it is good to be able to know these dramas. Little need be said of the increased prestige which they will bring to the Classical Club and likewise to the Department of the classics. But to see gorgeous Tragedy in sceptered pall come sweeping by, is enough in itself to make one urge that the project be carried through. The University will repay the Classical Club for its efforts in thanks, if not in gold...
...surpassed only by the .01-in. low of November, 1922 which, however, was not preceded by such weeks of drought as this year. Fires cut a line through the middle of the State to the coast. Many people were killed in automobile accidents in the smoke pall. Airplane operations were resumed only last week. Wild life suffered badly. Reported the United Press last week: "Bird life including every known species from sparrow to mammoth owls present a pitiful sight with screaming and chattering. The noise is deafening -weird sounds around occasional water holes where wild life flocks and fights...