Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is it," says a young man in a pink union suit, as the curtain closes on the first of three play lets. But, luckily it isn't. Following Sid Gorman's The Center, which seems an obtuse animation of an Abner Dean cartoon the poets enact two less murky and much more enjoyable play lets. The best of these and perhaps the only real theater of the evening, is Richard Eberhardt's The Visionary Farms...
...without horsemen, follow a man-made spoor over hill & dale. The deep-chested foxhounds are descendants of the hunting packs of Peel's time. But the owners are a different breed altogether. Few of England's pinched aristocracy can any longer afford the luxury of thoroughbred horses, pink coats and the rest of fox hunting's traditional trappings, but almost any workingman can afford a hound...
...Commission. Wrestling fans are apt to picture their hippodroming heroes as gross, stupid, out of condition, and in general, slobs. Not so, says Dr. Davis-at least not so on the fitness side. Thanks to continual training for weekly and sometimes nightly bouts, says Davis, wrestlers keep in the pink of physical condition. What's more, many of them are in good mental shape as well. Last week, after five years of examining the groaners (most of whom are in their 505), Dr. Davis reported to the County Medical Society in Los Angeles...
...vitality, 2) anatomical structure, 3) conformity with nature, 4) suitability of coloring, 5) artistic grouping, 6) copying of classical masterpieces. In striving to meet these requirements, even the greatest of Ming painters seldom departed from familiar themes; but they achieved such happy variations as scholarly Shen Chou's pink study of spring (see cut), and they more than made up in refinement what they lacked in fire...
...Kefauver's sponsorship of Atlantic Union: "It will be a blow to the cause of liberty around the world to submerge the sovereignty of the U.S. with other nations." On his first day, Russell spoke to 7,500 in Gainesville, Ocala, Leesburg and Orlando, finished with a bright pink case of sunburn on his bald head. He planned 30 speeches in ten days...