Word: palling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reverently, last week, as it wound through three and a half miles of London streets. When the principal service began at Westminster Abbey millions more heard over the radio Earl Haig's favorite hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers. To convey the coffin within the abbey came as most august pall bearers, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Field...
...great sledge. The sledge was covered with a pall of silver; it had silver handles. The silver gleamed dully. Above, on the alabaster casket shone much gold- a dado, four seals and hasps. Explorer Carter's men inched up the lid, moved it most carefully to the floor. The box was open for the first time since TutankhAmen's priests made their incantations over it, since they set his soul on the path towards Amenti, the Region of the West where Osiris waited with his 42 judges to approve its virtue and permit its passage to the Egyptian...
Every year, along with the board-walks in the Yard and the muddy snow on Massachusetts Avenue, at just about this season when education begins to pall before the prospect of vacation, comes the first of the series known more or less familiarly as the Whiting concerts. To entitle them more exactly, they are "Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music", given by the Music Department in the John Knowles Paine Hall in the Music Building, under the direction of Mr. Arthur Whiting, who himself takes the place before the harpsichord or pianoforte as the case...
Profoundest silence lay over all Turkey like a pall of death. Not a train ran. Not a boat sailed. Not an airplane flew. Not a factory hummed. Not a siren shrieked, nor a whistle blew. Men neither toiled nor did they sweat. In the cities the streets were deserted, except for a privileged few. Street cars did not run, shops were closed, automobiles were garaged. From Constantinople at the Golden Horn, along the length of the Bosporus, flanked by its minarets and white domes, diurnal scene of a thousand scurrying ships, all was silent as the graveyard...
That this same pall...