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Galah, n.: small pink-and-gray cockatoo, noted for its stupidity; hence, a drongo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Guide to Strine | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...Irreplaceable Artifacts in New York City, came to watch. He already owns a part of the façade of the old Chicago Stock Exchange and the cornice of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel. He suggests people start saving, for future investment, early formica tabletops "with the pink-and-gray blob design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...England, his wife Helen and their son and daughter-in-law farm a 520-acre place near Centralia, Mo. (see third color page), and rent another 180 acres near by. Son Frank, 24, and his wife Jane live in a modern pink-and-gray clapboard house built from architect's plans in a farm magazine. The elder Englands occupy a white frame eight-room house just a quarter of a mile away. The Englands raise soybeans, corn, wheat, have 60 head of Herefords, 150 hogs and 41 Appaloosa horses. They have a heavy investment in machinery and rolling stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Look of the Land | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

When the thing was settled, there was a moment of political silence. Hoover was forgotten for a minute while politicians considered the men around him, the new faces, the new commanders. First of all they saw a bland, pink-and-gray Iowa lawyer who was saying very little and looking very cheerful. He was James W. Good, who has managed the Hoover campaign, who may well become the new chairman of the Republican National Committee and who, if he does, is well assured of a good cabinet post if he wants it. Newsmen call him "Sir James" for his fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Machine | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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