Word: palely
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Maurice Utrillo, 66, still paints a few of the Montmartre scenes whose pale, subtle coloring and cool geometry of composition made his fame. But red-eyed, emaciated "Monsieur Maurice" no longer visits his old haunts; he sits at home in a suburban stucco villa, staring at his buxom energetic wife and dreaming of the dear, drunken, amazingly productive old days...
...himself, Winchell added: "Benedict, I am sorry to meet you under these circumstances." Replied nattily dressed, 36-year-old Macri: "I understand, Mr. Winchell. Thank you very much." Then the two walked together, past a thoughtfully posted Mirror photographer, to a police station only 100 feet away. There Winchell, pale and "sick to my stomach," turned Macri in, claimed the $25,000 reward for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. It was the second time Winchell had surrendered a man wanted for murder: in 1939, he handed over the late gangster, Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter...
...Pacini, representing the women of Orvieto, went to see the bishop. To the bishop's chancellor, pale, large-cheeked Francesco Troili, she shouted: "What's this about moving and smashing and substituting the reliquary without the people's consent?" Troili answered: "Who are you to question the bishop's decisions?" Pounding her breast, Lea wailed: "That's dictatorship...
Last week, after nearly a month of search, the police received a phone call from Dried Meat. "This is a warning," he said. "I'm coming." Nervous authorities thought he might come shooting. Instead, a pale figure in checkered black & white sport coat, he walked up to a suburban policeman, meekly surrendered himself...
...pale blue eyes hovering over everything from finances to falsies, Darryl F. Zanuck was warming up to another 18-hour day as production boss of 20th Century-Fox and pacesetter for the U.S. cinema. No longer the wonder boy who at 25 ran the Warner lot, Zanuck at 47 is something no less phenomenal. In 142 Ibs. and a carefully measured 5 ft. 6¾ in., he embodies what may be nature's ultimate effort to equip the species for outstanding success in Hollywood. Producer Zanuck is richly endowed with tough-mindedness, talent, an outsized ego, and a glutton...