Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exit the Decoys. In the meanwhile, Hero Hardcaster has been losing favor with the Red-and-pink salon crowd. When he tells one over-amorous admirer that the atrocity tales were so much party propwash and that he himself was only a stupid bungler in Spain, the lady denounces him to the other pinkos as a low cynic. Hardcaster is only too glad to leave the froth front and take charge of the gunrunning scheme. How the Reds double-cross Hardcaster and decoy the innocent Stamps to their deaths in Spain makes for a mystery-thriller finish to Author Lewis...
...ideas on which colors "go together" and which do not have been scrapped in the face of new successes for pink and red, brown and black, olive and forest green. Even more radically, prints are mixed with other prints, checks and tweeds are mated with fabrics using the same colors in a larger pattern. Paisley is making a bid for an untried tartan market. All of this will take form in scarves and narrow tie-scarves being worn with standard-colored sweaters. Look for some smart manufacturer to cash in on the inevitable matching vogue with cinches and scarves...
Despite all trends toward femininity, the men's shirt still seems to be holding its own. Tops for room and dorm casual wear, shirts of all colors, with emphasis on pink and blue, hide the curves almost as often as ever. Yet even along this line, the 'Cliffedweller is moving toward more neatness. Shirt tails are always tucked in and attractive color combinations are used to advantage...
Knowing this and realizing that an association with the University and themselves is no political elixer for mid-western candidate, the three professors gambled. They reasoned that McCarthy and Jenner have brushed so many similar appeals with pink paint that Wisconsin and Indiana voters would not be too upset over another. More important, campaign managers of both Thomas Fairchild and Henry Schricker insist that their candidates need money for advertisements, posters, radio and television time to win their elections. They add that their opponents are themselves getting out-of-state money...
...Does this mean that you also accept Col. Avery and what is left of what Kelly Nash rot? Do you also accept Wilson Wyatt for his utter failure in his management of the Lustron Corp. where millions of tax money was wasted? . . . Do you join the A.D.A. government by pink-minded men? Harry Truman gave his shoes to Adlai but refuses to take his own feet out. He claims all improvement and inventions for the past 20 years...