Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Edith Sitwell herself roaring on to the battlefield. "I did not write 'Emily-colored hands,' a hideous phrase," she informed the Observer, "I wrote Emily-colored primulas, which to anyone who has progressed in poetry-reading beyond the White Cliffs of Dover calls to mind the pink cheeks of young country girls...
...Kiss Your Hand, Madame, Cesana murmurs: "Don't be afraid, darling, it's only a man's apartment." From this high-voltage start flow 15 minutes of well-turned compliments, sly innuendo, intimate laughs, all floating on oceans of European charm. There are cigarettes and pink champagne, love songs rendered in a throaty whisper (explains Cesana: "I'm the only Italian living who can't sing") and, finally, a heartbreaking good night as Cesana gazes deep and soulfully into his loved one's eyes and breathes: "I haven't any right...
...Really like pink...
...religious figure. One painting is as still as death; the other crackles with fiery life. Some 500,000 St. Louisans visit their museum annually, and their particular pride & joy is Francisco de Zurbaran's Monk with a Skull, which cost only $3,000 in 1941. The pink-stuccoed De Young Museum, in beautiful Golden Gate Park, draws a million people a year; their favorite, judging by reproduction sales, is El Greco's stormy St. John the Baptist...
...Pink-cheeked, 16-year-old Zdenka Hyblova had another and more valid reason: she loved her boyfriend Pavel. Zdenka, Pavel and Zdenka's girl friend Alena had long dreamed of escaping. A year ago, all three had made a pact to flee their Communist land together. Then on a day that seemed at first like any other, Zdenka left the schoolhouse in Eger and climbed aboard the 2:09 train for Asch, the border town where she lived. Instead of stopping at Asch as it always had, the train roared on into Germany, and Zdenka suddenly found herself free...