Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arms (Goldwyn-RKO). Midway of Up In Arms, a couple of soldiers lean on a rail and gaze moonily down on a deckload of Army nurses. The nurses, the 34 most eye-straining creatures Sam Goldwyn could pick for the job, are sprawled about in revealing pastel playsuits. Says one of the soldiers reverently: "Boy! We didn't have anything like that in the last war." Says the other as devoutly: "We don't have anything like it in this war, either...
...some letters to a sick child. The invalid was enchanted. In 1901 Peter made his book debut accompanied by his brother and sisters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. In one of the simplest, shortest and fastest moving tales ever written (53 more-or-less declarative sentences, 27 colored pictures) the pastel-tinted miscreant Peter spent a lawless day, got into proper trouble, limped home a furry wreck but safe at last. And to sleep with him went every child who ever stole out of bounds to see for himself what was over the horizon...
Dive--won by H. Pastel V-12 (H), 75 points; second, Hun (M.I.T.), 74 points...
Outstanding were the performances of J. E. Curtin, Jr. V-12 (Harvard), who pulled up from behind in the 300-yard medley and the 200-yard breast stroke and that of Harvey Pastel, V-12, who had a close contest with Hun of Tech, winner of the diving event in last years meet. The final score in last Saturday night's competition being 75 points for Pastol...
...Crimson will be weaker in the freestyle than was expected, as Perry Stearn, free-styler on last year's team, has pneumonia. However, Oliver P. Morton, also a veteran, will be on hand for the meet, as will Harvey Pastel, diver, and Gilbert King, Jr., breast-stroker. In addition, 20 new men have turned out who will go to Tech...