Word: pallid
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Eight days after he ascended to the U. S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice Frank Murphy dashed to Palm Beach "for his health." At a cocktail party the evening before he left Washington, he seemed no more pallid than usual. His acquaintances in Washington therefore deduced one more bit of evidence that Frank Murphy would rather be almost anywhere than on the Court. He never did like to read law books; while he was U. S. Attorney General, he read as few as possible...
...Kensuke Horinouchi, called on the Assistant U. S. Secretary of State, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. No more dissimilar diplomats ever confronted each other. Mr. Horinouchi looks and acts like an animated cartoon of a Japanese statesman. Mr. Berle looks somewhat like a white mouse. But behind his pallid exterior he hides a talent for positive statement, a certainty that he knows what's what...
...Prison-pallid Dr. James Monroe Smith, convicted ex-president of Louisiana State University, hunched up in a jail bathtub at Baton Rouge, La., tried to commit bloody suicide by slashing his right foot. (It was his second attempt: last July, in the Federal House of Detention at New Orleans, he tried to have bichloride of mercury smuggled to him in an ice cream carton.) Two days later an ambulance carried off ineffectual Convict Smith to Angola State Penitentiary, to begin serving eight to 24 years for forgery...
While the jury was out, reporters at the press table got sorry for pallid, sobbing Miss Hofmann. They bought some lipstick for her, learned that she doesn't use lipstick. After the jury reported, Judge Knox said he was sorry, too, but would have to make an example of her. For her: four years: Mechanic Voss, six years; Friends Rumrich and Glaser, two each...
...Death jerks forward in short, swift scenes of sinister lights and even more sinister shadows. Many of the stage effects are bold and startling; but where, in Julius Caesar last season, vivid technique heightened a throbbing story, in Danton's Death the technique mercilessly, luridly spotlights a pallid, waxen corpse...