Word: ashen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's Conservative Party has waited months. The MacDonald Labor Cabinet had just been impressively defeated in the House of Commons by a vote of 282 to 249. Looking across at the Government Bench, Conservative Baldwin could see that the color had left Scot MacDonald's cheeks. He was ashen pale. With what words would Mr. Baldwin attempt, as leader of the Opposition, to force the Prime Minister to resign...
...Scullin was in Ceylon en route to the Imperial Conference at London. While his ship coaled in teeming Colombo he decided to brave the sunbeams, see the town. Cheerfully he advanced down the quay escorted by punctilious officials (Ceylon is British) then suddenly turned ashen pale, tottered, collapsed in a sprawling faint...
...ashen remnants of what seemed likely to be the fabulous and diabolical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were unearthed last week near the Dead Sea by the expedition of the Rome Pontifical and Biblical Institute. This startling rumor, tinder to adepts in yellow journalism, was disposed of by the sedate, scrupulous New York Times in three brief paragraphs on an inside page. The headline...