Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field was society gossip. Igor's most famous predecessor, the late Maury Henry Biddle Paul, made $100,000 a year out of writing, in his own brand of pink perfume, about the half-world of Manhattan's cafe society for 60 U.S. papers. Igor Cassini hopes to do even better: he will concentrate on what he thinks is the International Smart Set; his ambition is worldwide syndication...
...youthful Scriptwriter Isherwood-a parlor pink who lives with his adoring mother and brother-Director Bergmann is awe-inspiring. "His head . . . was . . . the head of a Roman emperor, with dark old Asiatic eyes ... big firm chin . . . harsh furrows cutting down from the imperious nose . . . bushy black hair in the nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power...
...little girl was staring far away, her eyes on the deep blue of the peaks. "The pink egg," she whispered...
...came out of the 'pink egg,' " continued the teacher, "and began growing, but there is not one of us who does not want, sometimes, to go back...
...After we came out of our mother's body, we began to reach out, little by little, toward the world . . . running back toward the pink egg when we grew too afraid . . . or when the steps came too close together or seemed too steep...