Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that I resent the phrase proves your adjective to have been well chosen; but even so, the point is somewhat blunted by your devoting most of two columns to three of Wooster's illustrious sons. I was privileged to know them all; Dr. Elias Compson, "77, Dean ("pink-slips"), as little as possible; "Prep" Arthur H. in the vague background; Karl, '07, as Captain and left end of the team on which I played an intermittent right end. Largely due to Karl, that team was not scored upon until its final game, when a soggy Columbus field enabled...
...Baby's Clothes:" This is the first time that I can recall where you put the only real fact of an article in its footnote: " "In Catholic countries blue (the Virgin's color) is used for girls and pink for boys." That is new news to me and rationalizes a "fashion." I appre ciate also your telling me the important department stores of eight great cities. Otherwise this article is twiddle-twoddle...
...Story: In Belgium, Princess Astrid, consort of the Crown Prince, gave birth a fortnight ago to a 7-lb. daughter. Said despatches: "The cradle . . . had been optimistically oufitted in pink, the color for boys, that for a girl being blue."* Said many U. S. newspaper readers: "What! Pink for a BOY? Why, in our family, we have been using pink for GIRLS, blue for boys." A check of U. S. authorities (i. e., leading stores that sell baby equipment) showed: BOYS GIRLS...
There seems, then, to be no great unanimity of U. S. opinion on Pink v. Blue...
...Catholic countries (France, Belgium, Spain, etc.) blue (the Virgin's color) is used for girls and pink for boys...