Word: pallid
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...Sapio in a position to marry Theresa Natale (her friends call her Tess, her husband calls her "Girlie"), a pretty secretary from Hoboken whom he had met at a dance several years before. By now, De Sapio was obviously a rising young pol, and Sheriff Finn, a pallid imitation of tough old Battery Dan, was on the skids. In 1939, egged on by Huronites dissatisfied with Finn's sorry leadership, De Sapio founded his own Tamawa Club (he made up the name, thinking it sounded properly Indianish) and stood against Finn for district leader. He was elected...
After urging NBC to correct its faults, the committee, listed a dozen recommendations, including such pallid injunctions as correct grammar, how-to-do-it shows, hobby material, folk music and "adventure programs other than westerns and space serials-for example, exploration." NBC handed the report to its program producers, solicited their comment before checking what, if any, "constructive steps . . . can be taken...
...being as well as a clay pigeon. Those who remember the sexy serenity with which Ruth Etting handled such numbers as the title song, Everybody Loves My Baby, At Sundown, and It All Depends on You, may find Doris Day's characterization of the star both too pallid and too girl-next-door. Doris tries hard, but, like the film costumes that are supposed to represent the F. Scott Fitzgerald era, she just isn't the real thing...
...numbers have lyrics that are either predictable from the first line or so contrived that his past offenses look pallid. In "Paris Loves Lovers," for example, he perpetrates something about Paris bringing out "the urge to merge with a splurge." This sentiment is repeated three times, so I am doing Porter no injustice through misquotation...
...Brooks starts with. Whether or not the elder Osborne succeeds in keeping a big oil company from industrializing sleepy old East Bank never gets to be of any real interest. And Tom's love affair with a girl who at first doesn't understand East Bankers is pallid to the point of boredom...