Word: pastel
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...Pastel colored imitation pearls to complement delicate cottons add the feature attraction to displays of summer jewelry. Chokers, bracelets, and earrings in lavender, turquoise, aquamarine and other shades are particularly effective against...
...little stimulation for careful analysis or deeper inquiry. As indicative of this condition I cite the fact that to many students, "research for speech material" is synonymous with thumbing through the current edition of the Digest. Worse, they reproduce the chosen article . . . orally, right down to the last pastel adjective...
...last week was owlish E. Merl Young, an old Missouri friend of Harry Truman, and a former RFC examiner who became a $60,000-a-year influence peddler in Washington. Indicted with him: Joseph Hirsch Rosenbaum, the lawyer who gave Mrs. Lauretta Young her famed $9,450 "natural royal pastel" mink, and two others accused of swinging their weight around the scandal-ridden RFC. Young and the others lied, said the jury, when they denied using their influence with the RFC to line their own pockets with natural royal pastel money...
...UPPER STORY, across from the Coop annex on Palmer Street, the accent is on charm. The small shop is stuffed with little gifts from all over. Every taste can be satisfied within its walls. The pastel scarf above is only one among a crowd of all types and shades. This one sells for $1.50. The pin, one of a collection of enamels by Howe, goes for only $3.75, and has earrings to match...
Winged Horse. Lila Wallace no longer does much editing, although if Wallace is unsure of a manuscript he may ask her to read it. But the traces of her hand are all over the Digest offices. She planned their decoration and amenities herself: soft pink and green pastel walls, patterned linen draperies, 18th-Century Georgian tables and leather-topped desks, fresh-cut flowers changed twice...