Word: pastel
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...heliotrope, has just the atmosphere for languorous relaxation. As the 45,000 Mexican inhabitants pad about the streets, busily putting things off until mañana, many of the 5,000 U.S. residents take their ease in elegant villas with lush gardens, shady patios, gemlike swimming pools and high pastel walls...
When Archie Alexander, a lifelong Republican, landed one day last week in pastel-painted Charlotte Amalie, the sign on the hangar that says "Harry S. Truman Airport" was tactfully shrouded by a big welcome banner. Next day Alexander, a Negro contractor from Des Moines, climbed up on the back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands...
...party House," our leader commented, explaining its remoteness and great House spirit. One of the main reasons for its "communal atmosphere" is the refreshment room downstairs, where members gather at night for sandwiches and ping pong and other fun. In the library, one freshmen, in a read pastel athletic jacket with "Rockets" emblazoned on the back, asked, "How many books in here...
...turned to the more serious cards. Ah--there was a nice pastel peacock on a modernistic looking one. But--"Than a peacock I'd be prouder, If you'd shout I love you louder." One more try, Vag resolved. If I don't find something now, hell with it. He opened "This valentine is guaranteed. . " and then groaned slightly when a pop-out gorilla leered at him with the inscription, ". . . to scare the YELL out of you." I guess I'm just too old to appreciate these things any more, Vag mumbled as he hunched under his tweed overcoat...
...decor of each gallery was adapted to the pictures it housed: one roomful of Rembrandts was placed against rich red brocade draperies; against a green brocade background Titian's Venus and the Lute Player took on a sensual grandeur. Other rooms were done in soft pastel shades or fine-grained wood veneers: Jan Vermeer's wonderfully clean Young Woman with a Water Jug was flanked by two exquisite German vases in a cool green room...