Word: pink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Oona. He had flown into Los Angeles saying, "I have come in the interests of peace." California was not like the Middle West, which had received its native lowan for the most part with austere interest. In Hollywood, pink-hued stars turned out to welcome him with huzzas. Film Director William Wyler entertained him. A capacity crowd of 30,000 filled Gilmore Stadium to cheer him. Contributions rolled in. Charlie Chaplin's wife Oona signed a check...
...Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy admitted that Wagner had his points: the music of Parsifal is "incomparable and bewildering, splendid and strong...
Between one pink dawn and another over the Moabite hills last week came The Day. It brought forth events sufficient to crowd aside the worries of tomorrow. To the Jews of Palestine this day brought a state of their own, the first in 1,878 years. To the British it brought the loss of a 10,460-square-mile base in the Mediterranean-and relief from a burden they had snatched up with imperial optimism 31 years ago. To the Arabs, it brought a tautening of determination as well as a more sober assessing of their chances for victory...
...looked healthily pink. As usual, his tie was knotted at half mast on his high, stiff collar. Ramrod straight, he stood 6 ft. 1 in. and shook hands with a lumberjack's grip. Being in the upper division again after all these years looked like...
Outside, the sun shone on resplendent Dutch tulips. In The Hague's 18th Century Ridderzaal (Knights' Hall), Britain's Winston Churchill, the greatest of living Europeans and perhaps the greatest of living men, stood forth, pink and pleased...