Word: pallid
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...medical autocrats, insisted. So they injected into that blooming, perfect body the wicked vaccine virus, poisonous pus that comes from the sore of a diseased cow. And it did its deadly work. The poison spread through her system and the roses faded from her cheeks. She became a pallid, sickly thing, grew rapidly weaker and weaker-and died. The authorities said she died of pneumonia, but I knew better. . . . And as I looked upon the shrouded waxlike figure in the little basswood box surrounded by blossoms that would have matched her budding beauty, I felt as though I was looking...
...sports, fearless, a trifle bored, she grew up during the War under all the best social auspices, which bored her still more. She tried college casual flirtations, filing, the empty kisses of empty young men, the social round ? and criticized them all. She was loved by a somewhat pallid would-be author ? and cured herself. She gave herself to Vincent Blatch. The experience was helpful, though it nearly resulted in misfortune. He didn't love her, really ? all she learned was that this was a crazy world. She wouldn't marry an acceptable parti. She moved...
...been recaptured. The new and youthful forces agitating the University probably make that forever impossible. Yet, in place of it, there is not the note of enthusiasm for struggle to a perhaps impossible goal which one loves in youth. The young men of the Monthly seem weary, disillusioned, pallid...
...current Advocate opens with an announcement of the judges for the Advocate Prize Contest, and with editorials on collegiate English composition, and Harvard's pallid interest in such affairs as the coming Presidential campaign. There follow an essay entitled "Harvard's Duty", two whimsical stories, named respectively "The Mitigating Circumstance" and "The Copper Pot", an instalment of a continued story called "The Mirage", two bits of verse translation, and play and book-reviews...
...pallid sweetness of the earnest face...