Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cried keynoter and Chairman of the Congress George Lansbury (a onetime Red now faded Pink and increasingly potent, among Laborites) : "Socialism is now British Labor's only goal. We raise that banner aloft and we shall keep it flying until Great Britain's resources are owned and used in the service of all the people...
There a group of youthful artists learns to applaud her studied phrases, but they lose their charm "all kneeling," and her "yen" for adulation turns to other fields. She prefers "a pink-and-yellow apple" to "all the jewels in the Rue de la Paix," but marries a rich man and surrounds herself with the luxuries she pretends to despise. Too soon, she learns that her husband thinks more of his golf and his naps than of the blue, blue sky. "What peace it would be," she writes in her journal, "to let my body enter the sea, and sink...
Should Bulgarian school teachers don uniforms varying in color according to the teacher's rank? Should, for instance, a headmistress wear royal purple, a primary school teacher baby pink, a teacher of science electric blue? Should the uniforms extend below the knee...
...with Hooverizing all the land. Under him in the East, definitely restrained and subordinated, is ebullient Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire. At Chicago, Dr. Work's name appears in handsome letters in the Hoover offices at 333 North Michigan Avenue (20th and 21st floors). But the pink-white-and-gray man in the office is only formally subordinate to Dr. Work. After seeing how ably the Midwestern cornerstone of his vote was being swung into place and how carefully the cement was being mixed, Nominee Hoover gave pink-white-and-gray James William Good implicit freedom...
...best contain the word murder in the title; and the rest trail far behind. Such are the findings of the American "Crime Club,"* a smart bookselling racket conceived by Nelson Doubleday, smart son of a smart father. As an advertisement, he mails to club members or prospective members a pink sheet of mystery-story news luridly modeled after the gumchewer dailies. But it is mailed to no gumchewers; rather to portly smokers of Corona Coronas−bank presidents, railway magnates, lawyers, Senators, and even a presidential candidate. Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were notoriously addicted to mystery stories; so also...