Word: pallid
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...number of characters and characterizations which are about as lifelike as Victorian porcelain under glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when, a misty...
Every member of President Paul von Hindenburg's household, from his bashful scrubwoman to his self-important State Secretary, sat down to lunch at one long table in the drawing room two days before Christmas. Beside pallid, big-jowled Old Paul sat his buxom, apple-cheeked typist. The flustered scrubwoman sat next to the President's handsome son, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, whose brunette wife, about to bear a daughter, had the hall porter on her right. A telephone girl sat with bespectacled State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner who had very little to say. Across the table...
Guest Norman Hezekiah Davis, Democratic handyman of President Hoover abroad, shared with Host MacDonald the chief honors of having brought Guest Baron Constantin von Neurath, the German Foreign Minister, around from a truculent to a co-operative attitude. When the pallid, pompous Baron reached Geneva last week he carried a proposal for increasing Germany's "defensive armaments'' which struck Messrs MacDonald and Davis as an "alarming document." These proposals they had managed...
...bronzed and ruddy contrast to pallid Manhattanites were 600 U. S. and Canadian sportsmen, scientists, game breeders and officials who gathered one day last week in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, around the tables of the 19th annual American Game Conference...
Since Europe's next war is apt to be fought over the Polish Corridor, it was bad news for Europe when M. August Zaleski, "The Briand of the North," resigned last week as Foreign Minister of Poland. Tall, big-boned and pallid because of a plugged artery, Peace Man Zaleski has sat more often than any other statesman on the Council of the League of Nations. Insiders call him the real author of the Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact. In the past two years he has immeasurably bettered relations between Warsaw and Moscow, obtained the signing of a Russo-Polish...