Word: pallid
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...half-inflated white rubber ball which is dragged under water as soon as it is tossed in and usually kept there until a goal is scored. Bubbles, choked cries, limbs eccentrically twisted rise to the surface. Faces reappearing after long confinement under water are sometimes empurpled, sometimes tombstone-pallid. Spectators find little science in it but enjoy the agonized grimaces of the players and the thought of what gouging, strangling, kneeing, biting, mauling and belly-thumping goes on subaqueously...
...Pallid, stooped, Lawyer Howard E. White, 56, socialite that failed, successful speculator of over $500,000, walked wearily out of Sing Sing upon completion of a one-year term. Princeton graduate, he was voted "most scholarly inmate" by fellow prisoners...
...color, costume and bearing, in the lines of some of their ascetic, sensitive faces they were the ones who seemed to be the superior race. Beside them the pallid little Englishmen dressed in the dull sobriety of bank clerks were like subordinate assistants. Even King George in morning coat minus the accustomed white carnation in his buttonhole, was more like a company director than a monarch...
...prove his patriotic contention the Emperor had imported and naturalized as one of his subjects "The Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh" (TIME, Nov. 3). Before the white Coronation guests, including George V's pallid third son, the Duke of Gloucester, the black ace was to take off and do stunts with an airplane presented to His Majesty by the daughter of H. Gordon Selfridge, London drygoods tycoon. "But don't you try to fly that airship before my Coronation day, Colonel!" commanded His Majesty, Power of Trinity...
...British Laborites are free traders, because they are all Socialists. Scot MacDonald's wavering toward an Empire tariff wall in recent weeks (TIME, Sept. 15) has merely reflected the fear of many Laborites that this new panacea will prove an unbeatable vote getter. But fear is not in pallid, crippled Philip Snowden. With the courage of an epileptic or a madman (though he is neither) he defied the Great Powers at The Hague Conference and won (TIME, Aug. 19, 1929 et seq.). Last week he forced the Prime Minister to let him at the Imperial Conference. A speech was announced...