Word: palely
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...PARENTS OF A 4½-YEAR-OLD SON MY WIFE (FAY GILLIS) AND I CONSIDER YOUR NOV. 27 COVER UTTERLY AND ABSOLUTELY BEYOND THE PALE. NEVER HAVE WE SEEN A MORE INVITING INVITATION TO MURDER BY OUR CHILDREN. IN OUR HOME HOPALONG CASSIDY IS 100% VERBOTEN FOR THAT REASON . . . WE BELIEVE YOU SHOULD NOT ENCOURAGE OUR CHILDREN TO USE GUNS EXCEPT IN THE DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY...
...Cancro Joyned." Astronomy helped Princeton Dean Robert K. Root settle one matter that had long tantalized Chaucerians: the date of Chaucer's Troilus and Crlseyde. Dean Root was struck by the passage: "The bente moone with hire homes pale,†Saturne, and Jove, in Cancro joyned were . . ." No astronomer, Dean Root suspected that such a conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and the moon was no common occurrence. He was right: for the first time in 600 years, the planets had come together in the sign of Cancer in 1385. That, concluded Root, to the general applause of Chaucerians...
...Thus pale, frail, one-eyed Carl Giles, 36, famed cartoonist for Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express (circ. 4,222,000) describes himself in a book of his cartoons just published by the Express. But most Fleet-Streeters-and Express readers-would describe Giles more simply as, next to David Low, the best cartoonist in Britain. Even Americans, often baffled by British humor, think Giles is funny, and his cartoons now appear in 22 Canadian and eight U.S. newspapers...
...prevent him from winning temporary freedom under habeas corpus. His health had worsened in jail, and he had been moved to a comfortable private home under guard. When TIME Correspondent Jim Burke interviewed him last week, Seagrave had almost regained his normal health and spirits, but he was pale and looked all of his 53 years. His voice had stopped trembling, but his hands were stained from chain-smoking...
...great shakes as a colorist, he avoided strong hues, tinted his figures with light dabs of pearly paint. No other artist, except Lautrec, ever mixed sweetness and sordidness more successfully. What kept Pascin out of Lautrec's league was that he had no bite; his paintings were pale and flaccid as the man himself...