Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...befitted the most powerful labor leader in the West, Seattle's bald, pink-faced Dave Beck toiled assiduously last week to satisfy the demands of protocol at the A.F.L. convention. He arrived in Cincinnati for the big doings as punctiliously as a good Moslem entering Mecca. He donned a proper hand-painted necktie, submitted cheerfully to interviews, and loitered diplomatically in the lobby of the Netherland Plaza Hotel, glad-handing rheumy and belligerent old union patriarchs...
Boston's pink-cheeked Porter Sargent is the Westbrook Pegler of education. He envisions himself as a kind of public conscience to the profession, and succeeds at least in being its common scold. Each year, in revising his Handbook of Private Schools, he writes a new introduction, and usually finds something different to attack. Last week, with the 31st edition of his Handbook, he took up the evils of wealth...
...been filling Toscanini's shoes at La Scala ever since. Some Italian critics, in fact, rate him above Toscanini as a conductor, an excess of praise which De Sabata doesn't seek. He still refers to Toscanini as "Maestro" and means it literally. He was pleased pink last summer when Toscanini told him that La Scala's orchestra and chorus "sounds better than when I left...
...game leg), bowed to the audience, then returned to the orchestra, he reminded some in the audience of his master. De Sabata, who is 56, is 25 years younger and considerably taller than Toscanini, with a face like a Caesar. But from the rear, he has the same pink, bald scalp ringed with white...
...something. Cecil Beaton called her "... A wicked archangel with . . . carven features . . . Her eyelashes, like a spreading peacock's tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...