Word: palling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, Cocteau makes about a half-hour too much of a good thing-and few things pall like a dream that cannot be shaken off. Cocteau's moody retort to this criticism is that there's just no dream to shake off: "It's a realistic film in an unreal world...
Members of the freshman class voluntarily postponed publication of the '51 Red Book until next fall by a vote of 300 to 25 in a pall conducted by the Freshman Register Board Tuesday. At the same time, the Register, containing pictures of the entire class, went on sale...
...Bones." Movie Veteran Adolphe Menjou was delighted with himself. Settling back and lighting up a Pall Mall, he readily admitted that members of the House Un-American Activities Committee could not have found a better witness. As it happened he was "a student of Marxism and Stalinism and of its probable effects on American people." He was also "a Red-baiter," he added cheerfully. "I make no bones about it. I'd like to see them all in Russia. I think a taste of Russia would cure them...
When they died, common Muscovites were simply wrapped in a pall and carried yo the burial ground, behind an icon; in their hands was placed a piece of paper with a prayer for the repose of their souls. This prompted an early Moscow correspondent, who had discovered that there was less freedom of movement in Moscow than anywhere in Europe, to report: "The Russ, when he dies, hath his passport to St. Nicolas buried with...
...hour's torrential rain which ripped through Cambridge yesterday afternoon between 3:30 and 4:30 o'clock had the University maintenance men hustling, but quick action with the mop, pall, and pump kept damage from backed-up drains and flooded cellars to a minimum...