Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as she arrived in Washington, she personally screwed her nameplate on the door of her temporary office; spoke at a luncheon of the Republican National Committee; had a look at the Capitol; hurried down to the Interior Department to discuss "South Dakota problems"; drew doodles on a pink Senate memo pad. "This life," she exclaimed, "is a hectic whirl...
...horse-racing circuit, 28-year-old Johnny Longden of Calgary, Canada, and 24-year-old Johnny Adams of Tola, Kans. led the field in a neck & neck race for the jockey championship of the year. Solemn, sharp-faced Jockey Longden was in front with 222 winners; jolly pink-faced Jockey Adams, last year's champion, close behind with 208. Both were racing at the Tanforan track outside San Francisco, riding six or seven mounts a day, and flying down to Mexico for Sunday racing at Agua Caliente in their attempt to chalk up the most winners by December...
...wives of "distinguished business executives" went pretty pink & white invitations last week. Would they spend a fortnight at the Palm Beach Biltmore Hotel this winter as "personal guests" of Mrs. Bernice Challenger Bost? All they need do is bring their husbands-as paying guests...
When he talks about his family, Mr. Charles gets pink-and the flush is not always of pride. His father Andrew and Uncle George married two sisters, Martha and Emily Clark. Andrew and George had differences. And their doubly-related descendants have honored the family tradition. Not long after William succeeded his late cousin Howard (son of George) as president, a family faction had him sidetracked to the chairmanship on the grounds that he was getting old. Then one faction urged modernizing the store; another wanted the status quo. In 1935 a 45-year-old, high-pressure executive named Victor...
...international event. At her press conference Mrs. Roosevelt made known that George VI & Queen Elizabeth, after making a royal tour through Canada, will spend three days in June at the White House, one in New York City at the World's Fair. King George will have the northeast pink bedroom suite which Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger used to occupy. Queen Elizabeth will have the larger blue suite on the southeast corner which, before the executive wing was built, used to be the U. S. President's study. Each suite has one large and one small bedroom, plus...