Word: sallow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bald, paunchy and sallow, Baron Maurice is a grandson of James Rothschild, clever, redheaded Frankfort Jew who founded the French branch of his House, backed the governments of Louis Philippe and Napoleon III and was bitterly assailed in French Republican papers as "Rothschild I, King of the Jews...
Jewelers remember him as the sallow, baldish, unhealthy looking little man who bought $2,500,000 worth of jewelry for his wife, pawned and redeemed it again and again as he traversed a career as full of ups and downs as a picket fence...
President Coolidge sent 6,000 Marines to Nicaragua and their officers told them to "Get Sandino dead or alive!" In two years of furious guerrilla fighting no one ever "got" General Augusto Calderon Sandino, though at last this slender, sallow, wild-eyed patriot was driven from Nicaragua after his men had killed 21 U. S. Marines (TIME, March 12, 1928). Last week a roving correspondent found Sandino in Yucatan, the arid Mexican state which bulges like a sand blister out into the Gulf of Mexico...
...Story. Gučret was a huge stoop-shouldered young man, his full and sallow face had a fleshy nose, thick lips, grey eyes, a blighted look. He worked as tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Gučret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified...
...Hugh Greene, sallow, 70, wears sensible shoes but contracts cancer anyway. The three months remaining to her to live she would wish six, since in six she expects a grandnephew or niece. But she exults over the thought that her unborn heir will get an estate of 2,534 acres...