Word: pallor
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President Coolidge was subject to seasickness which always threatened to mar the pleasure of steaming up & down the Potomac with the Mayflower. On these excursions Col. Coupal would watch the President's face attain a certain degree of pallor and wryness. would pluck two pledgets of cotton from a case and on them pour a few drops of a liquid. Mr. Coolidge would plug the medicated cotton in his ears. Soon his face would relax and ruddy Col. Coupal was free to continue with his jovial stories...
...college was beginning to feel keenly the tug of new winds of liberal doctrine, and in the words of one who was a Freshman at the time. "It seemed a backward step to take a man with a white lawn tie, a black frock coat, side whiskers and the pallor of a medieval monk, to preside over a college devoted chiefly to the liberal arts." Patton had been a Presbyterian pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that raised fears for the new administration among both students and graduates. Quite...
...grand climax to Mr. Darrow's case came as one of those dramatic and extemporaneous surprises which makes even the smartest criminal lawyer thank his lucky stars. Mrs. Massie, her blonde pallor set off by a black dress, was put on the stand to corroborate her husband's story of her ravishment and its effect upon him. For her it was a harrowing ordeal. Tears streamed down her cheeks. Her low drawling voice frequently broke off into choking sobs. From her Counsel Darrow drew forth many a detail of her husband's affection before turning her over...
...Majesty's Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, were a few of the pixie's mischiefs. Mentally Mr. Snowden is honest, alert, fearless. Long years of suffering from a spinal affliction have warped him physically, reduced him to hobbling upon two canes, given his drawn face its ascetic pallor. If he did not lash out savagely at his enemies they might treat him with a pitying consideration which he could not endure. As Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1924 Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, he won a sort of right to criticize the budgets...
...third. Everyone has heard just praise of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Everyone is conscious of Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes. But only the most alert can name the "Mystery Man" who has been Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia during the past six years. Beholding him one first notes his extraordinary pallor, then the round bald head, large mouth, short wide nose, piercing eyes, and dark overhanging brows. Such is Antonin Svehla...