Word: pallid
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...chapter called "Wasted Land" goes back to the last appearance of the Midwest's last purple people, the Dalton boys of Coffeyville, Kan. ... "A tall, harshly beautiful young man" (W. J. Bryan) comes out of Nebraska to be the Silver Knight; pallid Altgeld governs Illinois; Andrew Carnegie's detectives shoot strikers at Homestead, Pa.; solid Mark Hanna quietly bosses Cleveland; Coxey's army marches. . . . "California fruits and heiresses appeared seasonably in New York and were absorbed," but Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce are supplied by the same place...
...Detroit a pallid, tense, exhausted attorney for the defense finished his plea with a recountal of the evolution of the Negro. Step by step, he dramatically retraced the Blackman's faltering trail from the reaches of the sombre Zambezi, through the confusing and indiscernible vagaries of his enslavement, through the darknesses of his neo-liberty with its mob-slaughter, lynching and stake-burnings, and finally into the hope and comprehensions of a new day. This graphic recitation was to show that Henry Sweet, Negro accused of murder, was the unconscious victim of ancient racial inheritances, that when he knelt...
...first instinct a man has," argued famed Clarence Darrow, pallid attorney for the defense, "is to save his life." He spoke painstakingly of the fact that this was no ordinary murder trial but rather a trial of racial prejudices vs. impartial justice. Said he, "We are born into this world with a brain of putty, with no knowledge of color, no antipathies against black men, but as soon as we are born, people around us begin planting prejudices in our minds. . . . I haven't any doubt but that everyone of you jurymen is prejudiced. We are all prejudiced...
...while caring for their youngest children under school age. They work up to the last months of pregnancy and reenter the mills shortly after childbirth. The effects of this life are stamped upon them indelibly. Their backs are bent from the very nature of the work; their faces are pallid and drawn: their expression is haggard and listless: and they are worn with care and privation...
...crave no sympathy, but only a pallid smile can respond to the suspicion that . . . Germany . . . can at any visible date . . . set up a war machine...