Word: palled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royalty, he was careful to see that every one of his packages was liberally sprinkled with crowns, with PRINCE MATCHABELLI in large type. He died six weeks ago in Manhattan, had seven Russian princes, Conde Nast and the Hearst Press's Cholly Knickerbocker among his honorary pall bearers. But he left no will and his next of kin is his brother, Ito Matchabelli, who still lives in Leningrad and who by U. S. law will share his estate with Prince Matchabelli's sister and niece. By Soviet law no Russian may inherit private property. If Manhattan courts should...
...have a rendezvous with life. Far down the beckoning years Are times of peace and times of strife, Of laughter and of tears, Times of sorrow, times of joy, Times when shadows fall. Life seems all gold without alloy Or shrouded with a pall. While you, you're farther down the years. Can you now guide me through the strife? You've known life's pleasures, known its fears, But I've a rendezvous with life...
...prolog dragged into the first act and the first act into the second, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles cast a thick pall over its audience. Here was not only nonsense, but tiresomely outmoded nonsense. Critical verdict was unanimous: The show should never have been staged...
...things devised by Science for the safety and convenience of men, little has been done to dispel the danger and delay inherent in fog. In 1935 it is still the rule, when fog blinds land and sea, to stand and wait until it clears. Last fortnight a great white pall closed in on the Atlantic seaboard, spread over the U. S. as far west as Iowa and Nebraska. When it lifted last week it had lasted four days, the worst since the five...
...produced when warm, wet air encounters cold water, cold ground or cold air which condenses the moisture into droplets ranging from .00004 to .0008 of an inch in diameter. Thus last week's great pall was accompanied by unseasonal warmth. It was really a double blanket : an ocean fog caused by high pressure over the Atlantic and a land fog caused by low pressure over the Ohio and Mississippi valleys...