Word: pallid
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...Thirty years ago young Raymond Robins was prospecting for gold in Alaska when he had a vision of a gigantic luminous cross against a snow-clad mountain. He fell on his knees, prayed. After making his fortune in gold, he returned to Chicago, took up social reform. A pallid-faced, burning-eyed young zealot, he crusaded up & down Halsted and West Madison Streets against vice, liquor, crime, cor ruption...
...Training at Los Angeles while he waited to see whether the International Federation would restore his amateur standing at the last minute so that he could compete with fellow Finns, pallid Paavo Nurmi hurt his leg. Dr. Paul Martin, Swiss middle distance star, pronounced it a pulled tendon, ordered complete rest for Nurmi...
Ivar Kreuger, 52, matchmaker and moneylender to many nations, arrived in Paris last week. His pallid face was whiter than usual, and drawn. He had just been in the U. S., seeking loans for his labyrinth of companies. He had failed to get the loans. He did not look forward to a meeting he had called for Saturday noon to discuss his companies' financial position with their leading executives and certain international bankers. When on Friday his doctor told him he was in poor shape and should watch his heart he became very depressed. Saturday morning he arose, dressed, wrote...
...Memphis courtroom last week stood Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, popular dean of smart St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. Pallid and ascetic, Dean Noe was painfully embarrassed. All Memphis was privy to the domestic secrets of the deanery in the Cathedral's shadow. Mrs. Ellen Morris Camblox Noe began a divorce suit against her husband last year, charging that for three years he had lived a separate life in their house (TIME...
...music of any deep emotional content. Choruses had momentum but little real vitality. The love music was pallid and unaffecting compared with L'Amore, where Fiora forgets even the stalking blind king who she knows is coming to kill her. In a box last week sat Mary Garden, greatest of Fioras, with Signora Montemezzi, whose husband would appear more & more to be a one-opera composer...