Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sarasota, Fla. is the winter training ground of "The Greatest Show on Earth." It can also boast an elegant sideshow: one of the nation's greatest collections of Baroque art, housed in Sarasota's salmon-pink John and Mable Ringling Museum. The public favorite at the museum is Paolo Veronese's Rest on the Flight into Egypt...
Hollywood and Broadway have long suspected that brilliant Stage & Screen Director Elia Kazan (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) had once been a Communist, along with some other members of New York's now defunct pink-arty Group Theater. The professional martyr-makers were, as always, ready to cry persecution. But last January, in a secret session of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Kazan admitted that he had in fact been a party member for 18 months from 1934 to 1936. In that confession-no word of which reached the public-Kazan stubbornly refused to name...
...stood on the passenger ramp amid the crashing of a 21-gun salute, Juliana not only looked pink-cheeked and younger than her 42 years, but a lot more splendid than anyone had expected: she wore an eye-catching raspberry red dress, a silver fox cape, diamond and ruby earrings and high-heeled black pumps. As she stepped down to give President Truman a vigorous handshake, she had a warm and winning smile, a direct gaze and a jolly air that was immediately disarming...
...pink-cheeked Kirsten Flagstad, a simple woman who says, "Always I wanted to be a private person," has had her fill. She has been singing opera for nearly 40 years. For nearly 20 of those years she has been the world's foremost Wagnerian soprano. She had postponed her retirement and capped her career by learning the role of Alcestis in English at 55. Now she was leaving the Met, after her 193rd performance, with a voice faintly fading but still incomparable for ringing power and eloquence...
Varsity skiing ends this weekend as seven Crimson skiers compete against Yale and Princeton at Pink-ham Notch. Racing in the slalom are Captain John Houser, Harry Gardner, Kris Lehmkuhl, Daryl Hawkins, Jim Lawson, George Wilson, and Noel Scullin. Yardling skiers will race against the Yale freshmen...