Word: pallor
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...aptly nicknamed him "Old Possum." Pound had tried and failed to take over literary London through energy and bravado; Eliot succeeded through diffidence and self-denigration. He invited sympathy; friends who knew he was overworked were startled to see him wearing a green face powder that accentuated his cadaverous pallor. Yet he repulsed those who tried to ease his burdens; several plans to raise money that would free Eliot of his bank duties only aroused his resentment...
...prove that Penney was willing to make the final payment, police asked Mrs. Penney to pose as her own corpse in a fake coroner's photograph. Technicians created a deathly pallor with makeup. Said one officer: "She looked just like a corpse." Indeed, Penney tearfully identified his wife when police showed him the photo of the "deceased." Within hours, investigators say, he agreed to make the final payment. He was arrested when he arrived at the sheriffs office to take custody of his two children, who had been living with his wife...
Were flecked with red as her sick pallor grew...
...whirlwinds. He spent the better part of his days in the upstairs study of an ugly, respectable villa called Max Gate. Even his walks into the Dorset countryside-referred to as Wessex in his novels-tended to be circumscribed: the strolls of a suburbanite. Visitors expressed surprise at his pallor...
Golf's reaction to its pallor has been as unnatural as most of the players' reactions are to anything. New concepts of golf courses: "stadium" golf, "target" golf. New shades of golf balls: orange and lime ones that resemble kumquats and brussel sprouts rolling along the yard. In an unusual attempt to liven things up and make himself distinguishable from the other blonds, Jerry Pate has actually taken to throwing himself into water hazards...