Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Arthur L. Fletcher, a North Carolina National Guardsman, has the job of Wage & Hour enforcement. He looks like Author Clarence Budington Kelland's country-store keeper, Scattergood Baines, has a round, pink face, a vast capacity for calm, an equally vast distaste for employers who pay starvation wages. Of the hundreds of letters received by him up to last week, 104 were specific enough to be classed as complaints. Of these, 14 have been referred to the 24 field inspectors (one per State) already assigned to the field. As a Southerner who administered North Carolina's industrial...
...chance to get his money's worth is nothing new. In China, where J. Stalin-an Asiatic-believes the underdogs have guts to fight, the outpouring of money, munitions, war planes and supplies of all kinds from the Soviet Union makes a mere $2,000,000 look like pink chicken feed...
...well-established fact of genetic science is that certain characteristics tend to be transmitted in groups. In Dr. Dunn's rats, for example, all of the soft-skeletoned individuals also have pink eyes...
Today, short stocky Dr. Kelly, with his fuzzy head, broad white mustache and scarred cheeks (he was treated with radium for cancer of the face), is a familiar figure on Baltimore streets. In his lapel he wears a pink rose, sent fresh by an admiring friend four times a week. Below the rose is a large blue campaign button bearing a red question mark. As he meets his friends Dr. Kelly presents them with small reprints from the New Testament, saying, "Here's my card," and when strangers question him about his interrogating button, he invariably asks: "What...
Last week a committee of 51 reporters, copyreaders, rewritemen in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth broke journalistic taboos by publishing a pink-covered campaign booklet called "Deadline," crammed with the pro-Benson opinions their papers did not want. First edition ran to 100,000 copies. Excerpts: "We've written about Gov. Elmer Benson for two years. We know he is going forward. . . . The Red menace was a red herring. And smelled even fishier...