Word: pallor
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...Pride & Pallor. On his second trip to London Van Dyck became king's pet. He was taken up by Charles I (who was something of a connoisseur), knighted, and persuaded to stay. The Crown gave him a summer residence at Eltham Palace and he spent his winters in Blackfriars. He painted 36 known portraits of the king, 25 of Queen Henrietta Maria. The British nobility followed the king to Van Dyck's studio, and suiting his art to his sitters, he forsook the rich palette of his Italian period to paint them in proud, pale, silver-grey tones...
Vaslav Nijinsky came back to England. At 57, the grace and ease were no longer in his step and his round Slavic face showed the pallor of years of illness and the vacuity of long insanity. Dressed in a dark blue suit, which looked incongruous on him, he shuffled aimlessly along with his male attendant, and Romola, his devoted wife...
Last week, five weeks after her New York debut, she played again in Carnegie Hall. This time the house was packed and the critics were in their pews. A buxom, platinum-haired woman of 35, her face was heavily rouged to cover the pallor of the past six years. Her U.S. sponsors wanted her to wear a corset; she refused ("I have to feel what I play from the legs up"). Says Maryla: "My first concert is European. Come one artist in old dress, no photogenic, no smiling. Then come complications. The criticisms are too good. Come snobs, I play...
...behind and between the two pilots. From there he took pilots' blood pressures, counted respirations by watching the rhythmic rise & fall of the little flow indicator ball in the oxygen control box (most flying was done at heights requiring masks), took pulses and armpit temperatures, watched for trembling, pallor, changes in pupil size. In all, he observed 16 different men during the ordeal by flak. Only three showed no fright reaction...
...become Commander in Chief of France's Army of the Rhine), he was heard to mutter: "Nous marchons a un désastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along the firing line for hours seeking death. It never found him. At last, "muttering that they must stop...