Word: pallid
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...upon his mouth which would have been negligible in a person of normal health. A pretense is kept up that the Prince of the Asturias is a "gentleman farmer" much interested in raising crops and breeding hogs; but most of his prolonged sojourns upon his estates are passed in pallid relaxation. Moreover, an inflammation of His Royal Highness' joints has set in of late...
Even without such confirmation, however, it was abundantly clear, last week, that pallid, spectacled Pope Pius and swarthy, vigorous Cardinal Gasparri are now as one in their convictions that the Roman Question cannot be settled...
Often the college student is accused of his moral laxness, but it is seldom that the professor is attacked as he was on Thursday at the revival meetings in Tremont Temple. Reverend William E. Biederwolf accused the colleges of having too may "pallid prophets who have arisen to call upon our youth in the name of intellectual independence prophets of guesses and suppositions and unproved hypotheses who are leading our youth into a mental jungle and a moral morass...
...religion in general and Christianity in particular than that of the student. No small proportion of the faculty of Harvard lectures in Appleton Chapel, and undoubtedly there is a greater proportion of the faculty in attendance at the nine o'clock service than of the student body. Such a "pallid prophet" as Mr. Biederwolf mentions gets the least sympathetic audience among college minds...
Recent Bibles. These preposterous interpolations have been equalled in the most recent efforts to correct the history of God's doings; acutely insensitive persons have, for example, deleted from certain chapters all mention of alcoholic liquor, substituting, for such, babbling nouns, or pallid and incoherent adjectives. More valuable and more reasonable are modern efforts to rewrite the King James Version in a prose idiom which more nearly approaches present day vernacular. Of such efforts, the best known...