Word: pallid
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...delegates, frail, pallid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Robert W. Bingham and smart, sharp-nosed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, newly appointed Minister to Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania, promptly tried to save the Wheat Pact by proposing to offer Russia a quota 8,000,000 bu. greater than her hypothetical allotment...
...night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan had been born. When the sun came up Leo Frank's corpse dangled from an oak tree near Prey's gin mill. After it was cut down, a man ground his heel into its pallid face. Said the Marietta Journal: "We regard the hanging of Leo Frank as an act of law abiding citizens." Georgia's condemnation at the time was nationwide...
...blowing in through the gates wanders around and is lost in the hollowness of stone. People are away at the Cape or in the mountains. Between the sheds the Owl lies panting little spirals of smoke in anticipation of the long run past weary towns, isolated farm-houses pallid in the moonlight, black water sleeping in the dim aisles of forests, down through Connecticut, past exclusive suburbs, through Harlem tenaments under Park Avenue into the awakening city, cool in the gray and pink of dawn...
Satevepost stories, nor because of Mervyn LeRoy's competent direction. It is entirely because of the presence in its cast of an old lady whose preposterous career makes the happy ending in Tugboat Annie seem comparatively realistic and whose flamboyant character makes the people she impersonates seem pallid reflections of herself. Seven years ago Marie Dressier was an impoverished "bit part" actress, nervously consulting astrologers as to the advisability of opening a Paris hotel in the hope that friends who remembered when she was a famed stage comedienne might patronize it enough to keep her comfortable...
...termite is a pallid, squashy little bug which would be of no importance whatever were it not for its depraved appetite. It likes to eat wood. That taste makes it immensely important to building owners in tropical and warm temperate regions. Termites do yearly damage estimated at $29,000,000 to farm buildings in the South. Seven years ago they began to alarm California. Last week Entomologist George Ethelbert Sanders of the American Museum of Natural History sent a shiver through New York City by waking it to the fact that for the first time it is seriously infested with...