Word: palled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first dance. A little above herself in her fine clothes, a little sentimental when the orchestra strikes up a popular song of years past, but gorgeously enjoying herself. The Vagabond harks back to the days when he wandered into a cafe where lovely women rose smiling out of a pall of tobacco smoke, and beer came in litre stone mugs. He would sit by the hour at a table as the lovely women and the little stone mugs came and went listening to an orchestra somewhere in the distance playing "Tales From A Vienna Woods," in such a fashion that...
Playing nursemaid to children while the parents are out at bridge, acting as pall-bearers at $1.50 a funeral, answering night calls at undertakers' offices, and submitting to blood transfusions at $25. an operation are some of the things to which the Elis have had to resort...
...speech he made. It was his defense against charges of "gross extravagance" leveled against him by Conservatives. As the little Yorkshireman began his defense there were Labor cheers, then vigorous Conservative heckling. But as he progressed dead silence came upon the Labor benches behind him, finally settled like a pall over the whole House. Members listened as if stupefied to his declaration that Great Britain not only faces a budgetary deficit of $150,000,000 for the fiscal year ending March 31, but will face next year a deficit equivalent to a quarter of a billion dollars...
Evelyn Brent has a rather dilapidated vehicle in "Madonna of the Streets." The nasty innuendoes of titles about ladies, pavements, cobblestones. Madonnas, and streets is beginning to pall. You will be nauseated by the story, but you can't get sick of Evelyn Brent...
...Capitol far to the north on West 23rd St., fouled the Canadian River water 30 mi. away. Fire started in a creek near the well, swept toward the gusher, was doused by all the city's firefighting apparatus. There was grave danger. The gas hung in a dense pall over the frightened city...